Comment 12 for bug 1592870

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 05:45:41AM -0000, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> My initial thought is that ubuntu-wallpapers.xml.in should have
> ubuntu-default-greyscale-wallpaper.png

> I believe we've previously always removed the old aubergine wallpapers
> with new versions (Ubuntu doesn't make it easy for someone to keep the
> 14.04 version of the default wallpaper when upgrading to 16.04. On the
> other hand, 10 slightly different aubergine wallpapers in the chooser
> for someone who upgrades to every Ubuntu release is probably a
> problem.). If we're going to change that now for the gray version then
> we should change it for the aubergine version too.

There's no reason that the previous ones have to be shown in the panel.
Just remove them from the XML.

The question is whether people should be shown the symlink in the
control center or the actual wallpaper itself. I've done the latter and
I don't plan to change it right now, but if someone else cares a lot
then they should feel free to do it.

With the current scheme, choosing to use the 'default' wallpaper would
be expressed by the distribution setting the wallpaper setting to the
symlink. Then users that haven't changed their wallpaper would indeed
get the new one on release upgrades.

Cheers,

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