Comment 5 for bug 536712

A simple solution may be for GDM2Setup to nolonger assume that the picture_filename is set to the default, and instead to actually set the value directly each update that occurs for tthe wallpaper. Currently we only copy the user selected image into the xsplash folder and then link the different resolutions to it - allowing the default gconf setting to continue pointing at the file as before. That is - assuming that it ever was pointing at the expected image at all. This was for security reasons (having the GDM use images from an insecure directory seems like a bad idea somehow). A compromise between the two may be what is needed - set the picture_filename value to an arbitrary file name that we copy into xsplash - and copy the user selected image to that file name.

If there are no objections - I will role out a solution no later than this weekend.