how to change the default ugly background for gdm?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 01:13 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Even the old plain greeter was less crap than this.  I'm thinking of
> seeing whether GDM can be replaced, completely.  Perhaps XDM, if I
> don't want to go down the KDE route.

You can use KDM with Gnome.

poc