On Jan 14, 2008 10:33 AM, Jeff Spaleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/13 Laith Juwaidah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What do you suggest? > I'm not going to suggest anything because I personally do not like the > idea of generating a background for uniqueness for a default. And > that's as far as I'm going to go with my personal opinion to avoid > shutting down a discussion that may hold a more palatable concept as > other people think about it. I'm open to persuasion generally. > > But the idea of the re-using the smolt id for theis sort of automatic > uniqueness is definitely a specific implementation to be discouraged, > because there was a deliberate effort to restrict what smolt does so > that it doesn't leak information. Re-using the smolt id, in anyway for > anything runs the risk of doing exactly that. Some people may very > well want to do it, but I very much doubt its not going to be a > technology that Fedora as a project will actively encourage people to > use. I wouldn't want to encourage to use an ssh key or password to > algorithmically generate a desktop image, and i think we should > respect the smolt id in a similar fashion.
The idea of using smolt to generate unique backgrounds is that it will encourage people to send their profiles. Plus, all the reviews I read about F8 liked the idea of using an animated background. It'll be a good thing if we use a different trick every new release. In my opinion it's a pretty neat feature, people like "cool" stuff. :) > > > -jef > > _______________________________________________ > 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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