GDM Splash

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Fri Apr 1 09:37:25 UTC 2005


I take it that as the theme that got downloaded today is called 'HAPPY
APRIL FIRST' it is an April Fool's joke and it will go back to the more
professional splash screen tomorrow (well, it should really be midday
today)?

Regards,
Tony.

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 00:56 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2005 12:46 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:31:32AM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > > Nice picture on the new gdn splash ;)
> > > Who are these three people?
> 
> Now that's the final straw:  since this recent change I cannot anymore
> try to push Ubuntu as a distro in a business environment with that
> theme and these people staring at me at every login. It's distracting,
>  and not professional enough. What's next for Ubuntu?  Half-naked
> models as a GDM theme?  :)
> 
> And I guess the same picture will be use for all the shipit CDs for
> Hoary?  Now that will be interesting at trade shows when distributing
> free CDs...
> 
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