Workstation branding on login screen (GDM)

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 20:54 -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> From what I can gather the issue that is being encountered here is that Fedora Workstation is being marketed as a product, yet nowhere (highly) visible on the product is the brand. As grateful as we can be for being "granted" the ability to put the fedora logo in the details screen, this is the physical product equivalent of having the logo on the front of the user manual.
> 
> The workstation product has an additional hurdle to overcome because of the nature of upstreams. Any downstream looks essentially the same as us. Without some better, more visible reinforcement of the brand there is no differentiation between Fedora workstation and any other distribution using GNOME. If we rely on the visual style of the shell alone as our branding element, then to people that know what the shell actually is you are running GNOME, not Fedora Workstation. To people that don't know what the shell is, you are running something called "activities".
> 
> All other desktop OSes that have strong brands have identifying features on their desktops to reinforce their brand: Ubuntu, Windows, OS X, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
> 
> Regards,
> Ryanlerch

I wonder if a collaboration between the Fedora and GNOME designers might
find room for a downstream logo somewhere, as was the case for the login
screen when we tried to remove the logo there. I suspect not in this
case, but it doesn't hurt to try.
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