The theme issue: in search of a solution

[Ben Edwards (lists)]

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 15:11 +0200, Petri Pennanen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 13:10 +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> > As long as the splash can't be changed easily, it would probably be a
> > good idea to set it to something very generic. I'd be a little bit sad
> > to see it go, but then again, the splash screen is really insignificant
> > and I wouldn't really care either way (in fact, if there'd be an option,
> > I'd probably disable the splash screen completely).
> 
> You can disable the splash screen. Go to the Computer meny-> Desktop
> preferences -> Sessions -> Uncheck "Show splash screen on login".
> 
> - Petri

The issue is what the default theme is.  The idea is that you can give
someone a Cd and they can easily install it themselves.  First
impressions are very important and the current images will put a lot of
people off.