On Nov 8, 2016, at 12:43, Stephen Gallagher sgallagh@redhat.com wrote:
On 11/08/2016 12:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 12:22:31PM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: At https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/DownstreamBranding you'll find the start of lists for downstream branding possibilities. If you know of other branding used in distributions, or new ideas, please feel free to add those (or mail me privately if you don't have a GNOME Wiki account).
Thanks Bastien. This seems constructive. Would you consider changing "does not impact on the visual identity" to something like "provide a distinct visual identity which works in harmony with the GNOME visual identity and user experience"?
As an aside, can we try to get "default hostname" off the list? I've actually been trying to push for eliminating the default hostname in favor of a randomly-generated valid name so that we can play better with FreeIPA and AD environments. (Clients of those systems must always have unique names; conflicts cause hard-to-debug issues).
One such reference: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/164 (the implementation is mostly abandoned at this point, but the purpose is unchanged)
Or, if it is determined that this is important to do, can we try for something like "fedora-UUID" as a default hostname, so it's at least unique? Of course, the problem with that becomes that you end up with stupidly-long names on the default command prompt, which looks ugly. But perhaps it would be okay to just change the default command prompt not to show the full hostname (or auto-truncate it or something)
What about $CompVendor-$SerialNumber ? Serial numbers should be unique, and I thought they were accessible to the OS via the firmware.