Default Theme

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:32:24PM +0200, Michel Klijmij wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:57:20 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com>
> wrote in <20041013175720.GG5960 at alcor.net>:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:56:22PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > 
> >> Just to collect some votes, I agree to 100% Being able to explicitly
> >> select the new images is fine, but the previous gdm image would be
> >> better as a first impression. So would be the current "Ubuntu Default
> >> Desktop", which, despite its name, is _not_ the default (but the
> >> Calendar is).
> > 
> > The one labeled "Default" is the default; if you have never opened the
> > background preferences dialog, you will have the "Default" image as your
> > background.
> 
> I have opened it once, but always kept the "default" grey Ubuntu
> background. On booting up today after doing an apt-get upgrade yesterday,
> several half-naked people appeared on my desktop, apparently as the new
> default background. Now, I do not mind half-naked or even naked people as
> a background, but I'd appreciate it if an upgrade didn't change personal
> user settings such as the background.

This is an irritating bug in some of the GNOME settings dialogs; even if you
only open the dialog and look at the settings, it saves them as if you had
expressed a preference.

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 - mdz