Different Backgrounds for the Lock Screen vs the desktop

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Sep 6 13:08:27 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 15:57 -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> The new GNOME shipped with fedora 20 has the awesome new ability to set 
> different backgrounds for both the lock screen/shield and the normal 
> regular desktop background.
> 
> Currently in f20 alpha TC4, we set the old f19 default background for 
> the desktop, and a completely different pink, fan style design for the 
> lock screen. IMHO, the defaults should behave the same as the f19, 
> setting the default background for both.
> 
> thoughts?

I think it is better to default to two different backgrounds. Otherwise,
this new functionality is hard to discover, And having the same
background locked and unlocked was genuinely confusing to some people.



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