Workstation branding on login screen (GDM)

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 13 16:38:41 UTC 2014


On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:59:11AM -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 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.

Honestly, I think that you're setting up a false dichotomy. There must be a
way to indicate who we are with pride, rather than considering our brand
identity something that would interfere.

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

Find somewhere it should be, then, please.


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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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