Workstation branding on login screen (GDM)

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 08:53:54PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Debarshi Ray <rishi.is at lostca.se> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:37:57PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 05:57:13PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >> > > Find somewhere it should be, then, please.
> >> > Is the login screen not a good place for this?  If the user installed
> >> > the system, surely they know what it is.  If the user did not, they
> >> > must login and could see a logo at the login screen.
> >>
> >> Not necessarily, in a number of cases. One is in institutional use, where
> >> the system may log into a shared account automatically.
> >
> > Maybe via the default Fedora wallpaper? I know there are legal issues
> > with putting the logo there, but we already have wallpapers to go with
> > each release. We can improve that.
> 
> I like the wallpaper idea.  I'm not sure what the legal issues would
> be, aside from perhaps trying to keep the backgrounds "clean" for
> remixes to use.  Perhaps the design teams knows more.

That's the only issue to the best of my knowledge.

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