[system settings] Not clear that the background has actually been changed

Bug #1368809 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Triaged
Low
Matthew Paul Thomas
ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

During usability testing in August, when asked to change the background picture, a few participants were not sure that they had succeeded.

In the original design, this was handled by the top-level "Backgrounds" screen showing thumbnails of the lock screen background, and the Dash background. As soon as you changed the background, you ended up back at this screen.

Now that we don't have a Dash background, that top-level screen doesn't exist any more, so we need some other way of showing the change.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Appearance>: "If you choose “Set”, the background should be set, and the zoomed and panned area of the image should animatedly shrink down to become the first (and selected) item in the “Recent Images” section, with the screen scrolling to reveal it if necessary."

Tags: ota-1
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: ota
tags: added: ota-1
removed: ota
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Triaged
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Low
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I would (naively as a regular user) expect one of two things to happen:
   (a) the dash background to use the selected wallpaper; or
   (b) [at least] the wallpaper to be visible behind the window spread.

Neither happens so any reasonable user is left confused. Also maybe annoyed that they don't get to see their favourite wallpaper photo while moving through the dash.

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
summary: - Not clear that the background has actually been changed
+ [system settings] Not clear that the background has actually been
+ changed
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Triaged
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