Sometime ago i was talking with others PoaOSUG members, about the creation of a custom GDM theme for the user group. So we can create a IPS package and give the users the option to personalize their desktops (laptops), with our own theme. Ok, that’s the beauty of open software, we don’t need to create it from scratch, we can use it, modify, redistribute…

So, looking around, i could find this nice theme (by Chandan), and have decided to use it as a start point. For now, i just changed the background for this nice one(Creative Commons license), and have made some changes to the card(you can put your picture – 103×127). I have made some minor changes to the theme.xml file too. Actually, this is just an experiment to learn the complexity involved to create a GDM theme. And it is way to simple, like i think all good software should be.

The next step is continue the conversation within the PoaOSUG discussion mailing list, to decide the background image, how to insert informations like PoaOSUG website, etc.
Please, let me know what you think too!
Peace.