what a reaction!

[volvoguy]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:36:31 -0400, dave <dave at rodrig.com> wrote:

> The vast majority of those of us that found issue with the theme are
> against the simple fact that this was thrust upon us without any sort of
> notification or dialog. It's simply unacceptable for many of us to use
> this theme in our workplace. For many more, it's inappropriate to use it
> day to day. All I'm saying is this: to reach the widest audience
> possible, this cannot remain the default theme.

As I understand the comments made earlier by Mark Shuttleworth, the
fact that the "controversial" background shows up as the default is an
unintentional side effect for those that changed the default
background in earlier builds. It sounds as though people installing
Ubuntu from scratch today will see the REAL default background - same
color scheme, but just the (cool) Ubuntu logo.

I guess you'd file this as a bug - and as we're all using a new
pre-release distro, we should be used to finding (and hopefully
fixing) bugs. :-)

That said (and since Mark asked for a show of hands), I don't care for
the GDM screen or the splash image, but I happen to like ALL of the
new desktop images. I also wholeheartedly agree that if we want Ubuntu
to have a place in businesses, schools, libraries, etc, we should
probably settle for a more conservative theme - GDM/splash/background
included. I think the rest of "Human" is perty. :-)

Aaron