The new GNOME shipped with fedora 20 has the awesome new ability to set different backgrounds for both the lock screen/shield and the normal regular desktop background.
Currently in f20 alpha TC4, we set the old f19 default background for the desktop, and a completely different pink, fan style design for the lock screen. IMHO, the defaults should behave the same as the f19, setting the default background for both.
thoughts?
cheers, ryanlerch
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 15:57 -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:
The new GNOME shipped with fedora 20 has the awesome new ability to set different backgrounds for both the lock screen/shield and the normal regular desktop background.
Currently in f20 alpha TC4, we set the old f19 default background for the desktop, and a completely different pink, fan style design for the lock screen. IMHO, the defaults should behave the same as the f19, setting the default background for both.
thoughts?
I think it is better to default to two different backgrounds. Otherwise, this new functionality is hard to discover, And having the same background locked and unlocked was genuinely confusing to some people.
It can be a real boon to organizations wishing to standardize such different backgrounds around the company logo, or a consent-to-use message, or a description of the systems sensitivity, protections of privacy, appropriate use policy, etc....
From: Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com To: rlerch@redhat.com; Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Fedora Design Team design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 9:08 AM Subject: Re: Different Backgrounds for the Lock Screen vs the desktop
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 15:57 -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:
The new GNOME shipped with fedora 20 has the awesome new ability to set different backgrounds for both the lock screen/shield and the normal regular desktop background.
Currently in f20 alpha TC4, we set the old f19 default background for the desktop, and a completely different pink, fan style design for the lock screen. IMHO, the defaults should behave the same as the f19, setting the default background for both.
thoughts?
I think it is better to default to two different backgrounds. Otherwise, this new functionality is hard to discover, And having the same background locked and unlocked was genuinely confusing to some people.
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On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:08:27AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
I think it is better to default to two different backgrounds. Otherwise, this new functionality is hard to discover, And having the same background locked and unlocked was genuinely confusing to some people.
I can see the argument either way. If we do go for two backgrounds, it seems like the locked screen is a place where we can be more flashy (for example, making the Fedora logo more prominent) in a way which would be distracting on the desktop background.
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