GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 688957
Add distro logo and version to Settings>Details
Last modified: 2012-11-27 10:25:35 UTC
Created attachment 229743 [details] ubuntu-raring-etc-os-release GNOME should have a place besides the login screen (bug 658062) for users to look up what distro version they are running. And the login screen doesn't tell what version anyway. The System panel in System Monitor is mostly duplicated and superseded by the Overview section of Settings>Details...except that System Monitor is the only universal place where the distro version is listed (except on Fedora where I think that's still broken). This lack of distro branding prompted Ubuntu to substitute their logo for the GNOME logo. Perhaps if GNOME included distro branding, Ubuntu might drop that patch. http://sqlandplsql.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/selection_019.png You should be able to pull the name and version from /etc/os-release now that I believe all major distros implement that file. (Arch Linux of course doesn't do versions.) And you could just use distributor-logo. 128 pixels would be fine?
Replacing the GNOME logo and version with distro ones is absolutely out of the question. Adding a line with the distribution might be useful though. This needs to use the PRETTY_NAME in /etc/os-release. Patch welcome. (In reply to comment #0) > The System panel in System Monitor is mostly duplicated and superseded by the > Overview section of Settings>Details...except that System Monitor is the only > universal place where the distro version is listed (except on Fedora where I > think that's still broken). Seems to work fine here.
(In reply to comment #1) > Replacing the GNOME logo and version with distro ones is absolutely out of the > question. Right. My suggestion was to consider adding a distributor logo to the right of the GNOME logo. If not, at least the plain text distro name and version would be better than nothing.
See bug 688981 for the gnome-system-monitor issue
Created attachment 229783 [details] [review] Add distro information in the info panel This shows the name of the release in addition to 32/64-bit.
Created attachment 229784 [details] [review] Add distro information in the info panel This shows the name of the release in addition to 32/64-bit.
Created attachment 229785 [details] how it looks
Thanks Matthias. I don't think that "OS type" is a very good label now though. And Fedora is misspelled in the translator comment.
(In reply to comment #7) > Thanks Matthias. I don't think that "OS type" is a very good label now though. Yeah, I tried some things, but "OS" is too short, and "Operating System" is too long, so I ended up leaving it as is. Proposals welcome. > And Fedora is misspelled in the translator comment. Good catch, thanks
Renamed the field to "Base system" and fixed the typo