Community response of new ubuntu artwork

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 18:48 -0400, dave wrote:

> Also, my laptop has had Ubuntu on it for several weeks. During that 
> time, I installed on of the Ubuntu wallpapers from kde-look.org, 
> changing it from Default.
> 
Assuming you did this the usual way by adding the wallpaper to the
Desktop Background Preferences dialog and selecting it there, this
would've been stored in your personal settings.

(Unless you did something strange, like change the ubuntu-calendar.png
symlink to point at your new chosen image?)

> When I restarted GDM to see what all the fuss was about and logged
> back into Gnome, my wallpaper had indeed been changed to the calendar
> background.
> 
I cannot see any reason why this would have happened; this would've
meant that it looked up your background preference in gconf and didn't
think you had any setting so fell through to the default.

If this were the case, your background would've reset to the default --
and the new default is "Ubuntu Default Desktop" *not* the calendar.

I can't think of any reason why your setting wouldn't have been saved
(indeed, if it hadn't been it would've reset *every time* you logged
in).  And even if it wasn't saved, there's no reason it would've picked
a random background like the Calendar instead of the Default.


There's no magic at work here, the default background is set through the
default in the gconf schema for the background key.  If you change the
background, your own gconf settings reflect that and the default doesn't
get a look-in.

The oddness of some people seeing the Calendar is because when you close
the Desktop Background Preferences dialog, it saves whatever is selected
into your personal gconf settings thus overriding the default.

So those people who never touched it are still relying on the gconf
default, so will get the "Ubuntu Default Desktop" while those who did
touch it get whatever they had selected when they closed the dialog.

> So it looks as if anything other than the default (even 3rd party backgrounds),
> causes you to get the half-naked (good looking) people.
> Can anyone else confirm this?
> 
I have my own background, and although I do see a half-naked good
looking person, it isn't the one distributed in the ubuntu-artwork
package.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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