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[Mark Shuttleworth <844081@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/01/12 17:39, Afzal wrote:
> To Mark Shuttleworth, a lot of other people use Ubuntu besides you and
> they should also have a say in what they want or not.

They do; they have a say in design, in development, and in bugs. Here 
you've had your say and you've made a hash of it. Instead of offering 
constructive suggestions you've slammed out your own opinions with no 
justification, and then made a threatening demand. You'll find that 
achieves very little.

> So kindly try to consider other people's suggestions instead of making
> snide remarks about serious privacy concerns. A computer is a personal
> device and because of that, anyone should be able to choose any
> wallpaper they desire and not have it revealed to others if they wish
> so.

Consider this. They choose their login identity, at which point we show 
their desktop. That persists for as long as it takes them to type their 
password. Then we.... show their desktop.

By definition, your wallpaper is exactly as public as your face. So 
think carefully what you tattoo on your face ;-)

>   This "wallpaper transition" feature is more unneeded than the option
> of opting-out of it.

We disagree. Let's try to do so graciously.

> So if you're putting in that option, you sure as hell better put an
> option to opt out of it.

Or... you'll use something else. That's OK. Or... you'll patch Unity to 
behave the way you'd like? That's OK too.

Mark

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/844081

Title:
  Unity Greeter - Background of the Unity Greeter should reflect the
  background chosen by the user that is currently selected

Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information:
  Confirmed
Status in Ayatana Design:
  Fix Released
Status in Light Display Manager:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity Greeter:
  Fix Released
Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Background of the Unity Greeter should reflect the background chosen
  by the user that is currently selected.

  e.g. the background the user has selected on their desktop should be
  displayed in the greeter.  See the attached animation
  login_screen_v02_WP.mov to understand exactly how the backgrounds
  should crossfade.

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