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> 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 ;-)

Excuse me, but... Are you serious?

Your wallpaper today is only "public" in as much as people can look over
your shoulder when you are logged in and working on your computer, but
so is *anything* you are working with, and I haven't yet seen anyone use
that as an argument to make e.g. your bookmarks and personal files
accessible and highly visible to other users on the system. So why
should the wallpaper be any different? Why should the wallpaper,
exactly, be accessible to every other user of the system, whether you
trust them or not? Shouldn't it be the user's own choice whether they
want to share their private data with everyone else having an account on
that computer?

I think the "you just shouldn't choose a wallpaper you don't want your parents/wife/kids/roomie to see" argument rings unpleasantly of Apple's "We know best how you should use your computer" attitude. 
Yes, I know, you can just change permissions on the file - but you have to be most computer savvy than most to know that such a setting would carry over to the wallpaper (How do I, as a casual user, know it doesn't just make a copy and changes the permissions when I set an image as the wallpaper?). But really, it should be a fundamental pillar of the UI design that the user alone, no one else, decides who they'll share their personal data with.

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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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