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 -- 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
