On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 14:12 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
I like it. Do you have similar plans for the plymouth
animation?
Maybe fill in the standard Fedora logo, but the final "flash"
animation shows the workstation logo (or vice versa)?
I like the branding ideas in Plymouth and GDM but this isn't where
anyone is going to spend much of their time and since I use encryption
on my laptop which requires me to enter a password on boot anyway, I
auto login and don't even see GDM. Branding while you are logged in
is likely going to have a much bigger impact
Well, it depends on the environment. For example, if we are powering a
computer lab in a school or office setting, then this branding will be
highly visible.
Your concern is based entirely on a single-user system, but I think
we're *hoping* that Workstation will be useful in multi-user
environments, particularly those cases where the machine is joined to a
domain (so auto-login is not really an option, since you will need to
authenticate against a domain controller to get SSO credentials).
That being said, yes I think some post-login branding is also a really
good idea, but there are fewer places we can put that in Workstation,
given its commitment to minimal chrome.
The only thing I can think of would be modifying the background image to
include (an overlay of?) the Product logo over the image.