Workstation branding on login screen (GDM)

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Oct 13 15:59:11 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 05:15:19AM -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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> > I don't think we should have a logo in the default shell chrome, as it
> > would dilute the goal of minimal chrome, and take attention away from the
> > already present UI items.
> 
> 
> I understand that goal, and especially for upstream it is laudable. Clean,
> elegant, and minimal are ideals. As a distro, though, we have to balance
> those ideals with other goals, including promoting identity. It is important
> to have visible Fedora branding somewhere. Help us figure out how.

Yeah, because Fedora users definitely don't want the same clean nice desktop that
other distributions would get.

Sarcasm aside, you're not going to win users by displaying the Fedora
logo in places where it shouldn't be, quite the contrary.


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