Comment 33 for bug 844081

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Nathanel Titane (nathanel.titane) wrote : Re: [Bug 844081] Re: Unity Greeter - Background of the Unity Greeter should reflect the background chosen by the user that is currently selected

Glad to see it'S over and it'S been finally done :)

Maybe I'll come back to Ubuntu starting 12.04 ;)

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> 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
>
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> duplicate bug report (854280).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/844081
>
> Title:
> Unity Greeter - Background of the Unity Greeter should reflect the
> background chosen by the user that is currently selected
>
> Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account
> information:
> Confirmed
> Status in Ayatana Design:
> Fix Released
> Status in Light Display Manager:
> Fix Released
> Status in Unity Greeter:
> Fix Released
> Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Background of the Unity Greeter should reflect the background chosen
> by the user that is currently selected.
>
> e.g. the background the user has selected on their desktop should be
> displayed in the greeter. See the attached animation
> login_screen_v02_WP.mov to understand exactly how the backgrounds
> should crossfade.
>
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