On Jan 14, 2008 9:30 AM, Jeff Spaleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 AM, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When you'll install a new system, you'll get a unique (smolt-system) > > > id-number; maybe it is possible that that id-nummer is the "code" > shown at > > > your dsktop?! > > > > > > So everybody has his "own unique" Desktop wallpaper/theme and also > maybe > > > with the changing color as in F8??? > > > > Wow! That would be indeed cool, to have your own code somewhere (it may > > be even a bar code). > > This is NOT a good idea. The whole point of the smolt ids are that > they are suppose to be somewhat anonymous. If the id numbers are > encoded into the desktop, by default, without people's knowledge, then > people doing screencasts using the default desktops are essentially > leaking smolt id information without their express knowledge. > > You want to use another random algorithm based on system entropy to > produce uniqueness..fine... but don't use the smolt id as the basis of > the uniquness for the desktop image generation in any way please. > Considering the choices made concerning how smolt operates I would > have a real hard time support seeing any such smolt id based graphics > generation being shipped in fedora. It's not self-consistent with the > effort put into smolt to get the id's anonymous.
What do you suggest? > > > -jef"Hey instead of the smolt id, for US citizens lets encoded the > social security number into the desktop image"spaleta > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-art-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list > -- Laith Juwaidah http://www.ljuwaidah.org
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