Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Fwd: Please inform free distro maintainers

[Aurélien]

pbot now inform people about that subject directly in the IRC ::

It's not exactly what have been be ask for ... but it's a first step to
follow the way ...


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Felipe Sanches <address@hidden> writes:

> well... given that all of the source code for the system is available under 
> free licenses, one could patch it to use fonts to render
> text on the login screen or as an overlay on the wallpaper area instead of 
> using images of text messages...
>
> Of course it may be hard to implement and specially to mantain a patched 
> version of the upstream packages, but certainly it can be
> done :-)
>
> happy hacking,
> Felipe Sanches
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:57:24 +0100
>     Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
>    
>     > Jason Self wrote:
>     > > Karl Goetz wrote ..
>     > >> This would mean adding text to a number of images which can't be
>     > >> translated without shipping a new background image per language. I
>     > >> question whether thats really what we should be doing - it feels
>     > >> quite imperialist (to me).
>     > > > It seems to me that it doesn't (necessarily) need to be a
>     > > > wallpaper although it
>     > > could be. It seems that it could also be messages that the
>     > > installer shows while running, or a web page that automatically
>     > > opens the first time they login, or...
>     >
>     > ... an "Examples" folder on the desktop, containing various sample
>     > files, including some of RMS' essays.
>    
>     I'll re-include a segment of the quote I was commenting on:
>    
>     > [...] announce prominently on the screen, before login and on the
>     > default desktop after login, a prominent statement about freedom,
>     > such as &ldquo;This system is freedom-respecting free/libre
>     > software&rdquo; or something comparable
>    
>     None of these solutions provide a 'prominent statement' before logging
>     in. (You can't assume the person logging in was the person who
>     installed it after all, or that they sat and watched the system
>     install).
>     thanks,
>     kk
>    
>     --
>     Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS)
>     http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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