default desktop background looks hideous IMO (was Re: Testing current rawhide...)

[Douglas Stewart]

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Barry K. Nathan wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:49:36AM -0500, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
|
|>Other packages that we'd like last-minute testing on include
|>samba, apache, bind, sendmail, ntp, mozilla, openoffice.org,
|>and gnome-terminal.
|>
|>Be aware that we're looking specifically for SERIOUS AND MAJOR
|>REGRESSIONS, not for annoyances you didn't think to file in
|>bugzilla before.  We are looking for (and hoping not to hear)
|>"Monday's kernel works, today my machine crashes on boot" or
|>"test3's samba served content, today it doesn't" or that kind
|>of thing.
|
| <RANT>
| What the HELL is the new desktop background supposed to be? It reminds
| me of:
|
| (a) Fingerprint smudges on the monitor
| (b) The Southern California wildfire smoke that I hate breathing
whenever I
|     go outside nowadays
| (c) LCD damage caused by pressure/stress on certain parts of the display
|
| EVERY SINGLE ONE of these is in the "things I'd rather not think about
| when I'm trying to use my computer" category. </RANT> I'm guessing
it's not
| really a "SERIOUS AND MAJOR REGRESSION" but I'm mentioning it just in
| case there's anyone else who hates this background as much as I do. (If
| I'm the only person with this opinion, feel free to ignore me, though.)
|
| -Barry K. Nathan <barryn at pobox.com>
|
|

Well, crap, looks like I was beaten to the punch. *grin*


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Doug Stewart
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Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs

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