what a reaction!

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:09:12PM -0400, volvoguy wrote:
> 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.

That is the case for the desktop wallpaper, but it is not the case for
the GDM background or for the gnome-session splash screen.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]