Chocolate background appears when loading desktop

[lucnoc]

Ubuntu Linux 5.04 : The Hoary Hedgehog Release.

If you change the desktop background to say blue, when the gnome desktop loads the default desktop background of Ubuntu (chocolate) appears for a short period of time before changing to blue.

This is really cosmetic in nature but there is also some sort of inefficiency ...

Ubuntu Linux 5.04 : The Hoary Hedgehog Release.

If you change the desktop background to say blue, when the gnome desktop loads the default desktop background of Ubuntu (chocolate) appears for a short period of time before changing to blue.

This is really cosmetic in nature but there is also some sort of inefficiency as another background is first loaded before beeing replaced by the correct one.

From the aesthetic perspective it's rather unpleasant to see the chocolate background appear if you have selected a theme that uses a different color palette than the default Ubuntu.

[Dave Meikle (dmk-uk)]

It is gdm that is showing the "Chocolate" background when loading. This is because gdm is set to use that colour by default in Ubuntu.

When you change the background for your users it is only for your users desktop sessions, where as gdm is global i.e. for every user logging in on the system. Changing gdm's background to match the palette of the user is fine in a single user environment but for multi-users it wont work.

If you want to change this for yourself go to System->Administration->Login Screen Setup. It can be found on the "GTK+ Greeter" tab.

Cheers,
Dave

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what kind of change do you expect?

[lucnoc (lucnoc)]

Hi Sebastien,

sorry for the late answer but I did not had a chance to check my e-mail
lateley.

In the mean time I have installed Breezy so I will take a second look at
this bug and get back to you.

Thanks,

Luciano

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Regarding the

On 10/7/05, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/902
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> Comment:
> what kind of change do you expect?
>

[lucnoc (lucnoc)]

I looked at this again in Breezy and I agree with Dave: the default should be the one from ubuntu during loading.

However I would argue that the expected behavior for loading in Breezy is not completely correct, not because of the background but because of the top and bottom panels. During the load process I would expect that the chocolate background appears while the load graphics showing the components beeing loaded. What I would expect then is some sort of smooth transition to the possibly customized user desktop. During loading of the desktop, towards the end the panels start to appear empty at first, then they get populated, but not completely then the switch to the customized desktop happens. I think that the panels and the user customizations of the background should either appear all at once or smoothly fade in from the chocolate background. That would be a different bug I guess. Any comments?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Jeff, what do you think about this?

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

Gdm displays the cholocate background even if a user selects a different background color in his session. A proposed solution was to fade into the users environment.
Is this doable (probaly not in dapper)? So should this be looked upon in dapper+1?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Certainly doable - I think there was some upstream bug about that as well - whoever investigates in this for Edgy will have fans throughout the world I guess. :-)

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

Should this still be open?