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Re: No more custom home screen backgrounds?

 

hey Alex - preview to the reponse you'll get, this was the design decision
that was made.
some of the arguments were...
first potentially bad contrast selection (tween scope result and background)
second eventually allow scope authors to pick, and allow them the choice of
augmenting their scope result experience.
br,kg



On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Michael Spencer
<sonrisesoftware@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> In some of the mockups, it looks like you can see a wallpaper through the
> header divider - maybe there's plans for a desktop of some sorts and the
> dash is an overlay like on the desktop? Just a wild idea.
>
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> Michael Spencer | sonrisesoftware.com<http://sonrisesoftware.wordpress.com/>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Florian Will <florian.will@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> The fixed bug appears to be about brightness settings getting lost after
>> screen turns off.
>>
>> The non-customizable background is probably a design decision because it
>> "strengthens the ubuntu brand" or something like that.
>> Am 26.03.2014 19:12 schrieb "Alex Chiang" <achiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On 03/26/2014 10:12 AM, Jason Warner wrote:
>>> > ...
>>> >> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Iain Lane <laney@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> >> <mailto:laney@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>       - Is there any chance we can have this feature back please? I
>>> for one
>>> >>         enjoy the ability to customise the appearance of my phone and
>>> I'm
>>> >>         pretty sad that this has gone away.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm in this camp as well. I know I've changed my iOS or Android
>>> background to
>>> >> something rather unpleasant and quickly changed it to something else.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > +1
>>> >
>>> > Changing the background is a simple customization that can have a big
>>> impact on
>>> > people's impression of the phone.
>>>
>>> Guys -- rsalveti already said it was Just a Bug (5 mails back) and
>>> that a fix is in CI train already.
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