wallpapers, themes and morals - a hard decision is required

Fabio Mora fabio.mora at fastwebnet.it
Fri Oct 15 07:17:52 UTC 2004


david wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>OK,
>At the risk of getting told of for starting another thread on a familiar
>subject.
>
>It's real simple, I have already installed Ubuntu on two computers, one
>of which is going to a primary school and the other into a church hall.
>If you choose to ignore the obvious feelings amongst the community over
>this new theme, and decide to keep it, I will remove Ubuntu from both
>pc's as well as my own and work pc's. I work as a technical consultant
>on a project rolling Linux out across the NGO/voluntary sector and we
>have installed Linux computers into various organisations dealing with
>many ethnic groupings.
>I was going to switch from Mandrake to Ubuntu.
>That decision is on hold until you make your minds up. A lot of people
>have spoken very reasonably as to why this is a crap, insensitive theme
>and the only counter arguments are based on confused liberal ramblings.
>Tough decision time.
>Which direction is this distro going in?
>Put your money where your mouth is, remove the theme, keep it neutral
>and we can move on.
>Or I for one am off.
>
>regards and a degree of hope
>
>David
>
>
>  
>
well, I work in a elementary school too, and I have already installed
ubuntu on 14 computers.
I will not run any "apt-get dist-upgrade" untill default theme will be
return the original simple one.

simply: can someone tell me why is so necessary use that photo as default ?
why?

is there really some extraordinary meaning in showing bodies as in
commercial ads?
I don't think so.

put that theme as a choice.

I *really* don't understand.

fab'





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