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mastermind008
November 3rd, 2009, 05:37 AM
Jaunty Jakalope had a set of nice Login Screens, but Karmic Koala doesn't have too many options to select a preferred Login Screen. Does somebody know what is the reason for removing that option?

earthpigg
November 3rd, 2009, 05:42 AM
upstream changes.

ubuntu doesn't make the login screens in various releases. they didn't make the old one, they didn't make the new one.

they do add a nice looking theme, though. or a bad looking theme, depending on your opinion.

ya know how Free and Open Source Software has the "anyone can modify or redistribute bla bla bla" stuff?

for the majority* of what we consider "Ubuntu", Ubuntu is merely the "anyone" that modifies and redistributes. or distributes as-is without modifying, as the case may sometimes be.

If paid employees of Ubuntu developed and programmed all of Ubuntu, the price certainly wouldn't be $0.00. :D

the guys 'upstream' that put GNOME together say "ok, this is how the new GNOME login screen looks!" Ubuntu dudes say "OK, we're using it!" and add a theme and perhaps some other tweaks. nothing at all wrong with that, mind you. it's how Free Software works.

*majority, but certainly not all! Ubuntu has made some really great contributions to Free Software.


edit: take a look at how Fedora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_linux)'s desktop looks. familiar, perhaps?

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/switch/install/Images/fedora.png

yup, they didn't decide on that particular placement of menus, icons, and whatnot either.

GNOME decides that gnome looks like *THIS* and does *THIS*. distributions using GNOME have the choice of either accepting that or eventually being forced to fork.

some Arch Linux folks chose the "fork" option for KDE. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDEmod

mastermind008
November 3rd, 2009, 06:38 AM
Thank you so much for being kind enough to reply so quickly!:D

I've been an Ubuntu fan sice about 5 years, but I was not familiar with ubuntu those days. Now I'm using Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex/Jaunty Jakalope & now Karmic Koala). So I don't have a big knowledge about Ubuntu and I really appreciate your advice! It was so clear & thanks again for that!

earthpigg
November 3rd, 2009, 06:45 AM
you are welcome, sir.