Community response of new ubuntu artwork

[Ryan Thiessen]

As everyone can see on the mailing lists and #ubuntu IRC channel, the
topic of the new racy GDM theme and splash screen has dominated much
of the discussion.  I'd say the overwhelming response so far has been
"I just can't see this in a work evironment", depsite how people feel
about the images themselves.  I'm not looking for instructions on how
to change the images locally, we can all do that ourselves -- I
personally think the images look rather nice, for what it's worth.  As
far as I can tell, there has been no response from any of the Ubuntu
developers despite these repeated questions on IRC and on the mailing
lists.

As a distribution that bills itself as a community project, I think
it's fair to say that this will be the first major test of what that
actually means.  Will the questions of the community go unanswered, or
will there be a discussion or debate or at least an post explaining
the reasons why Ubuntu Warty RC1 is shipping with this artwork?  I
realize that much of the effort today has been correctly focused on
the release of RC1, and I don't mean to be a nag... but when an isue
comes up like this the community concerns really ought to be addressed
in some way.

I don't mean to be confrontational, or subtract from the hard work the
Ubuntu developers have done to put out this great distribution.  Just
hoping for some sort of discussion or explanation, that's all.

Cheers,
-Ryan Thiessen-