On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 12:26 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On Tue 19 Mar 2013 12:22:51 PM EDT, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
Good question; having it always visible in the desktop is a huge step backwards of course (and we agree it's a non starter). My personal opinion is it's debatable you should present it at all, since the user knows what it downloaded and installed himself.
Let's be fair - in a multi-situation, it is necessarily that only one of the users involved installed the system. In a computer lab situation or in an employee preload situation (maybe the latter wouldn't be Fedora, but RHEL) the users did not install it themselves.
That's true. But in a preloaded/locked-down situation where the user doesn't have full, or any, control on the software installed on the machine the requirements might be different: - the logo would likely not be the stock distributor's one, but one identifying the organization providing that leased/temporary service to the user. I can think of a number of reasons related to billing/support/accountability as of why this makes a lot more sense than in the "personal use" case. - it's still unclear to me the benefit to the user and/or the distributor in showing a logo in that scenario. For example, if the machine has a corporate lockdown, that fact alone might discourage users trying to install the same OS on another personal machine. This is in my opinion related to the question I was asking in the second part of my above previous message.
Cheers, Cosimo