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[Mark Shuttleworth <844081@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/01/12 01:37, Afzal wrote:
> Say I'm a converted christian and my mom's a muslim and she doesn't know
> about my conversion.
>
> I have a portrait of Jesus as my wallpaper. Oh and I only log into that
> computer when my mom isn't around. If she sees it, she might flip out
> over possibilities of conversion and if this feature didn't exist, I'd
> be free to set my wallpaper to anything.

You'd have way deeper challenges than choice of wallpaper in this
scenario.

> There could be a thousand other scenarios, what if the power went down
> right after I checked to see how some half-nude wallpaper would look on
> the desktop? My conservative mom would get very angry...especially if
> she's paranoid wnough to actually check my wallpaper every time she logs
> in.

Your Mom knows more about you than you can possibly imagine.

> All of this isn't a problem for me and as you (Mark) said, I could just
> write a patch for this but I'm just appalled that a CEO of a company
> like Canonical has a problem with giving users a very trivial (to
> implement) option when they are asking for it.

The cost of options has been widely discussed. We have a firm view on 
it, it's my job to lead to that view. You are welcome to fork Unity with 
as many trivial (to implement) options as you like.

Mark

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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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