<div>2008/2/27, vidd <<a href="mailto:vidd@crosslink.net">vidd@crosslink.net</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> jmak wrote: > Regarding the wallpaper; it is aqua blue, it is an abstracted > rendition of the ocean bottom. Anyhow, everyone has its own taste, it > is impossible to come to an agreement on a taste basis. Ubuntu people > cannot do it since the beginning. The important thing is to have a > unified and coherent desktop. > > Jim, we use the wallpaper as a gdm background as well, so the dark > color you suggested, doesn't work because it would render the black > mouse in the logo invisible. > > I dont agree that we should go back to a certain tone and stick with > that for ever. Every release has it own character and this should be > expressed visually too. And please consider all aspect of the general > look and feel rather than just taking one element out of the context > and look at it in its own isolation. > > This is how the gdm will look like. > > <a href="http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=loginexpscreenshotvy5.png">http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=loginexpscreenshotvy5.png</a> > > jmak > > So will the user be able to change this god-awful background (looks even worse as the login screen) to say, the current version after install? If I need to safe the current in a separate location and import it to my updated system, and rename the file, that is fine....just where will it be? and is it one image or two images?</blockquote><div>  </div> It's not "god-awful" and this is not the list to discuss "How to change my desktop background". If you really, really, really don't know how to do this: <a href="http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfdesktop">http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfdesktop</a> And no, there is no 4.4 version of this manual... The same for gdm: <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.20/gdm.html">http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.20/gdm.html</a> cheers <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> vidd -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>