Comment 32 for bug 844081

On 19/01/12 17:39, Afzal wrote:
> To Mark Shuttleworth, a lot of other people use Ubuntu besides you and
> they should also have a say in what they want or not.

They do; they have a say in design, in development, and in bugs. Here
you've had your say and you've made a hash of it. Instead of offering
constructive suggestions you've slammed out your own opinions with no
justification, and then made a threatening demand. You'll find that
achieves very little.

> So kindly try to consider other people's suggestions instead of making
> snide remarks about serious privacy concerns. A computer is a personal
> device and because of that, anyone should be able to choose any
> wallpaper they desire and not have it revealed to others if they wish
> so.

Consider this. They choose their login identity, at which point we show
their desktop. That persists for as long as it takes them to type their
password. Then we.... show their desktop.

By definition, your wallpaper is exactly as public as your face. So
think carefully what you tattoo on your face ;-)

> This "wallpaper transition" feature is more unneeded than the option
> of opting-out of it.

We disagree. Let's try to do so graciously.

> So if you're putting in that option, you sure as hell better put an
> option to opt out of it.

Or... you'll use something else. That's OK. Or... you'll patch Unity to
behave the way you'd like? That's OK too.

Mark