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[Mark Shuttleworth <844081@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/01/12 16:14, Fred wrote:
>> Your Mom knows more about you than you can possibly imagine.
> My mom doesn't know that I'm gay.
> I have a "girlfriend" to cover it up.

This is not a private communication ;-)

Folks, we can construct artificial scenarios to make any option 
worthwhile. That's not how we do design; instead of celebrating the 
unusual and the extreme, we look for the things that most people can 
enjoy and use. That's where we focus our energy. The world of Linux and 
Ubuntu will always have infinite possibilities for those who want to 
explore them, but it's not in our value set to FORCE everyone who takes 
a vanilla CD off the shelf to *have to deal* with those possibilities.

This is good practice. It makes Ubuntu grow and achieves our goals as a 
community. As a side benefit, it attracts lots of developers who want to 
be part of changing the world, and who want to write applications for 
those users.

In this case, as was rather eloquently put, we've chosen to treat the 
wallpaper as a part of your expression of yourself to others. That's a 
perfectly reasonable position to take - look how *proudly* people show 
off their wallpapers! We're celebrating that, and elevating that. And we 
think this is good. Moreover, we think the position that one would 
choose a wallpaper that would cause mortal embarrassment is (a) so 
unlikely, and (b) so impossible to enforce, that it does not warrant an 
option.

We have a saying - options cost a knuckle, dialogs cost a finger. This 
isn't worth a knuckle.

We have FAR more pressing problems on the discretion front. Top of my 
list is the fact that we don't map notifications away from projectors. 
That's far more risky - you can control your choice of wallpaper, but 
you can't control what someone might IM to you while you are making your 
critical presentation.

So, please help us address that issue. I'm sure we all agree that's more 
important, and perhaps, by the time we come back to this less important 
issue, we will all have evolved our positions. OK?

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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