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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/844081/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs