Ubuntu artwork poll

[Ville Vainio]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 17:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 02:39:14PM +0200, MaX wrote:
> > personally i think to download the stable ubuntu as soon as available,
> > delete the default theme and remastering and use it without the name
> > "ubuntu".
> > I also can consider to put the iso in some web server for all, that it
> > think like me.
> 
> The problem about remastering the CD image is that it simply doesn't
> work: as soon as somebody upgrades from the network, they'll get the old
> artwork back, and you can't forbid people to upgrade from the network
> because they need to be able to get security updates.

There surely can't be a technical reason why ISOs with different
artworks couldn't happen. Make the artwork debs check in the package
script whether /etc/i_dont_want_benetton_on_my_desktop exists and
abstain from installing the controversial artwork if that is the case.

Of course this would require co-operation from Canonical. Forking the
distro would be stupid-stupid-stupid if Canonical could just put two
official and supported isos available for download. That way they would
be able to have the cake and eat it too - do all kinds of radical
artistic things with the other distro for those who don't mind (places
where people have a different image of what is "corny" like Africa, I
can imagine), but still allow the distro to be endorsed by most of us in
the western world.