Cosimo Cecchi (ccecchi@redhat.com) said:
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 14:38 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
- 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.
... which, since many distributors of GNOME need to account for this case, seems reasonable enough reason to have that space reserved in both the login screen and any boot-time display (e.g. plymouth) already for a logo, and for Fedora to put its logo there.
It sounds like we're going to have a logo in Fedora in any case, but just for the sake of making my point clear, I really don't see why the former (having that possibility available for specific use cases of some users) would necessarily imply the latter (put a Fedora logo there for all users).
If nothing else, having it be the default makes it a good test case to ensure that it works, and also to give those that want to customize it later an entry point.
With respect to having a logo, the suggestion posted by Ryan of having it center-bottom would seem to be the cleanest one - there it would seem less likely to me to distract from the center-focus of the login screen itself, but would be notable/sized enough that a reasonable logo could be used instead of the top-left titlebar approach.
Bill