Re: Community response of new ubuntu artwork [LWN.net]

Re: Community response of new ubuntu artwork

Posted Dec 22, 2004 19:02 UTC (Wed) by flipg40 (guest, #26829)
In reply to: Re: Community response of new ubuntu artwork by ikm
Parent article: Re: Community response of new ubuntu artwork

I agree 100%. I have installed Ubuntu on a workstation at my Company. Luckily my manager wasn't around to see the default desktop art. It does look like a photo op for a porn site. Not very professional. In general most adults would be shocked to see these images on any professional organization's desktop, especially if it belonged to a preist or preacher. Ubuntu is a very clean distro and I recommend it to anyone with a simple word of warning, the images may offend. Hope this changes soon so I can install it on more machines!

peace

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Re: New ubuntu artwork - a newcomer's thoughts.

Posted Mar 7, 2005 8:48 UTC (Mon) by derek.harding (guest, #28279) [Link]

I am a priest in the Anglican Church and also an IT consultant with European clients including school service providers.

I have recently loaded Ubuntu (Hoary) on my laptop (after years with SuSE) and I feel no qualms about the logon screen image. In fact, I don't have any qualms about the others but I prefer to have pictures of my family on the working desktops.

True the computer is a tool but just as my father made his woodworking tools "his" by decorating them and moulding them to his use, so I shape my tools - the laptop, desktops and servers which I use or supervise.

I think the artwork promotes togetherness and human-ness - happy people in relaxed circumstances putting indeed a human face to an inhuman object, and summing up the Ubuntu principles superbly. I can see no suggestion of pornography in the images but, crucially, what tends to deprave and corrupt (my understanding of the meaning of the word) depends upon how it is viewed in the first place.

However, I do accept that interpretation of images is a function of the viewer's background. Perhaps this emphasises ubuntu in the different opinions. Please keep these images available but perhaps provide a more varied choice at installation?