Comment 36 for bug 844081

Ok, maybe my last message was the wrong tone but consider this scenario:

Say I'm a converted christian and my mom's a muslim and she doesn't know about my conversion.

I have a portrait of Jesus as my wallpaper. Oh and I only log into that computer when my mom isn't around. If she sees it, she might flip out over possibilities of conversion and if this feature didn't exist, I'd be free to set my wallpaper to anything.

There could be a thousand other scenarios, what if the power went down right after I checked to see how some half-nude wallpaper would look on the desktop? My conservative mom would get very angry...especially if she's paranoid wnough to actually check my wallpaper every time she logs in.

All of this isn't a problem for me and as you (Mark) said, I could just write a patch for this but I'm just appalled that a CEO of a company like Canonical has a problem with giving users a very trivial (to implement) option when they are asking for it.