Comment 39 for bug 844081

On 20/01/12 01:37, Afzal wrote:
> Say I'm a converted christian and my mom's a muslim and she doesn't know
> about my conversion.
>
> I have a portrait of Jesus as my wallpaper. Oh and I only log into that
> computer when my mom isn't around. If she sees it, she might flip out
> over possibilities of conversion and if this feature didn't exist, I'd
> be free to set my wallpaper to anything.

You'd have way deeper challenges than choice of wallpaper in this scenario.

> There could be a thousand other scenarios, what if the power went down
> right after I checked to see how some half-nude wallpaper would look on
> the desktop? My conservative mom would get very angry...especially if
> she's paranoid wnough to actually check my wallpaper every time she logs
> in.

Your Mom knows more about you than you can possibly imagine.

> All of this isn't a problem for me and as you (Mark) said, I could just
> write a patch for this but I'm just appalled that a CEO of a company
> like Canonical has a problem with giving users a very trivial (to
> implement) option when they are asking for it.

The cost of options has been widely discussed. We have a firm view on
it, it's my job to lead to that view. You are welcome to fork Unity with
as many trivial (to implement) options as you like.

Mark