No more pornographic login screens!

[totalshredder]

Look at the main ubuntu page; it apears as if we have a ubuntu login screen with:
1. People who actually look normal
2. People who are wearing clothes.

I hope either this or something else is on the cover of the new Hoary CD, because one of the biggest turnoffs to me giving someone an ubuntu CD is the fact that there's a half-naked guy, and that the photographer is preverted.

I'm really glad they're changing this; it needs to look friendly, which I think this one does :)

Luke

PS. Where can I get this?

[bonifacio]

Hold on a minute, I won't say its pornographic. It's not really distasteful the way it was, I kinda like it. Though I must admit the lady wearing the red shirt is hot!

[bored2k]

I would not say the GDM Theme was pornographic, but I respect the opinions of anyone who feels this way, wether its for religious believes or just doesn't like it. Luckily, we have an option to change it at will. Imagine something like that on another OS where you have to basically risk your system's stability for this.

[totalshredder]

Calm down guys! I was completely joking about it being pornographic. It definitely isn't. But it make some people laugh.

And I'm sorry, but you wouldn't think she was hot if she wore a sweatshirt. End of story :grin:

Who are those models anyways?

Luke

[bored2k]

Some people did find it offensive.
I dont think the point was to be hot or not ..

[james_mad]

I do not use the login screen so I do not care much. And that girl would still be hot in a sweatshirt :razz:

I just hope they do not discontinue the calendar pics, and I mean of the same style that they are currently using.

[BWF89]

http://maitri.ubuntu.com/theopencd/ubuntu/login.png
The new login screen looks gay. I want the old one back! (eventhough I don't use Linux yet)

[bored2k]

http://maitri.ubuntu.com/theopencd/ubuntu/login.png
The new login screen looks gay. I want the old one back! (eventhough I don't use Linux yet)
Maybe I can make you a GDM Theme with Senator Palpatine aka Bill Gates, George W. Bush, Michael Moore, C. Rice and hey, why not, Jon Stewart. Cool enough? All of them in a group hug.. I'd never change that GDM.

[DJ_Max]

http://maitri.ubuntu.com/theopencd/ubuntu/login.png
The new login screen looks gay. I want the old one back! (eventhough I don't use Linux yet)
Whats wrong with it?

[james_mad]

Is that Wayne Brady?

[ubuntu_demon]

http://maitri.ubuntu.com/theopencd/ubuntu/login.png
The new login screen looks gay. I want the old one back! (eventhough I don't use Linux yet)
This isn't the default GDM login theme. This is Human Circle. Human is the default GDM login theme.

[bored2k]

This isn't the default GDM login theme. This is Human Circle. Human is the default GDM login theme.
We get controversy even with this! I'm thinking, next time, have a blank, white GDM that says: "You people complain too much, make your own wanmit!".

[DJ_Max]

We get controversy even with this! I'm thinking, next time, have a blank, white GDM that says: "You people complain too much, make your own wanmit!".
ROFL. Maybe you need to submit that idea to the dev's. :-P

[Gary Powers]

http://maitri.ubuntu.com/theopencd/ubuntu/login.png
The new login screen looks gay. I want the old one back! (eventhough I don't use Linux yet)

I can't find it on my machine. Seems totally gone. Good thing I havn't updated my other box yet :-) !

Gary

[primeirocrime]

I wonder if they will remove the anarchism package due to political pressure...
:roll:

well, it's not so bad this new one. But hte other was realy ahead on it's time. Our society isn't ready for naked happy people yet, and I think in order to reach more people there should be a balance.

so let's see how ubuntu grows. by the way is there a away to know how many ubuntu users there are? Have to search for that.

[TravisNewman]

First off, I would have thought she was hot if she was wearing a sweatshirt. ;)

Second, I don't like this new screen that much, but I don't see how a guy with his shirt off offended so many people. Guys walk around with their shirts off all the time. However, the calendar artwork-- sure. That could offend.

I'm wondering if there are going to be any more calendar wallpapers from the original photo shoot, because they weren't pornographic, or even erotic. They were ARTISTIC. Offensive, maybe, but not pornographic.

[Nano]

Did anybody delete my posts?

[TravisNewman]

Did anybody delete my posts?
Looks like KiwiNZ did, yes, and it was pretty offensive.

[Nano]

Looks like KiwiNZ did, yes, and it was pretty offensive.
Sarcastic isn't offensive.

[KiwiNZ]

Remember in the impersonal enviroment of the forums , there is not the face to face interaction , Sarcastic can come across completely different than you intended

[bonifacio]

After my last update...Nooooooooooooo!!!! I miss my lady in red. :cry: How to bring it back?

[totalshredder]

What are these calender shots you guys are talking about?

I'm starting to miss the old one already.. even though it hasn't left yet ;)

Luke

[bored2k]

After my last update...Nooooooooooooo!!!! I miss my lady in red. :cry: How to bring it back?
You guys have serious issues..

[Glanz]

At one time, when I was still a happy victim of my pure anarchistic innocence, I actually believed that Linux was a sort of refuge from the cold world of blue-nosed twits whose delicate and sensitive version of morality is offended even by birdies doing their springtime thing on branches of trees. I was wrong evidently. Maybe someone should start a fork of debian just for them and call it "Virgin Holy/Linux."

[TravisNewman]

What are these calender shots you guys are talking about?

I'm starting to miss the old one already.. even though it hasn't left yet ;)

Luke
search synaptic for "calendar"
There should be an ubuntu-calendar package, and ubuntu-calendar-<month> packages for each month since warty's release. It's a monthly wallpaper provided by Ubuntu but not included by default, because the images are of the people in the gdm screen in... risque poses. And not wearing clothes. Except the guy, who appears to be wearing boxers.

[gylf]

I like the new shot better. The reason is that the average joe visiting the web site will say "Oh I see, a happy community" instead of "hey, what's with the people in bathing suits?"
On the other hand it doesn't represent the Ubuntu logo anymore. I really wish they would have done 2 groups of 3 (or just one group of 3 fully dressed).

[TravisNewman]

I like the new shot better. The reason is that the average joe visiting the web site will say "Oh I see, a happy community" instead of "hey, what's with the people in bathing suits?"
On the other hand it doesn't represent the Ubuntu logo anymore. I really wish they would have done 2 groups of 3 (or just one group of 3 fully dressed).
They weren't in bathing suits were they? Tank tops yes.

[bvc]

http://maitri.ubuntu.com/theopencd/ubuntu/login.png
The new login screen looks gay. I want the old one back! (eventhough I don't use Linux yet)

400 some_0dd post and you don't have linux? I don't even wanna know why :roll:

maybe it's because I came from mandrake cooker and learned to ALWAYS!!!
...let me say that again!!!
ALWAYS!!!
backup what you like ;-)
but these constant....'how do I get it back' post crack me up!
ever hear of save as or rename?

move along...there's nothing to see in this thread =;

[bvc]

let me further that by...
hoary=testing (you are a test rat)
expect to get crap you do not like
expect to tell them you do not like
expect them to change it constantly, for better or worse
U R A test RAT
(in a human distro :-P )

[adbak]

Maybe someone should start a fork of debian just for them and call it "Virgin Holy/Linux."
What about naming it Virginix? Abstinix? ChastiBSD? Federal Communications Commissionix (or FCCBSD)? ;)

[bvc]

why people at all?
we escape in our pc's!!! we see people all day!!!
we do not want them on our computers!!!
(well, some like that anime crap but [-X )
/guess there is something to see here after all ;-)

[UbuWu]

Apart from the login screen being pornographic or not, the photo used for the login screen was very beautiful I think. Now it looks like just a photo anybody could have taken...

[Glanz]

What about naming it Virginix? Abstinix? ChastiBSD? Federal Communications Commissionix (or FCCBSD)? ;)
:smile:LOL
How about Creationix Fundamentalist/Linux?
or
ThinkLikeMeOrI'llShootYou/Linux
or
MadCowboy/Linux

[bored2k]

:smile:LOL
How about Creationix Fundamentalist/Linux?
or
ThinkLikeMeOrI'llShootYou/Linux
or
MadCowboy/Linux
Start (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LiveCDCustomizationHowTo) working on it.

[Glanz]

Start (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LiveCDCustomizationHowTo) working on it.
...and for artwork, I'll use the "Ubuntu Circle of friends" but with Doris Day, G.W. Bush, and Jesus Christ.

[jwb]

Why not hedgehogs embracing?

Or a monkey, a llama, and a jellyfish?

Or the Swedish bikini team?

[jnoreiko]

1. People who actually look normal
2. People who are wearing clothes.

Yeah, that's a big improvement.
But it's the wrong number of people now! It doesn't match the logo.

[Glanz]

You mean well-dressed hedgehogs with little suits and white shirts and black ties?

Jellyfish aren't sexy.

Swedish bikinis.... with Swedish hedgehogs wearing them... THAT'S IT!!!!!!

[Campitor]

In my opinion, the new photo does not look artistic enough...Like UbuWu said it looks like a regular family shot - a very multicultural family I must add- but a regular photo indeed. The previous one looked very ARTISTIC, the wall-papers also do. So if people got offended by naked ladies, or you got some heat from your boss because of having a bit of skin on your wall-paper...I can understand. The developers should have just had a set of pictures of the same three humans, with clothes on (well, just slap a shirt on the skinny guy). Then you have a choice. I personally think the old style was very cool, very harmless and very well designed.

[Glanz]

If someone is offended by that original, I suggest they use Windows, subscribe to MSN, and get lost in the baby-picture swapping forums. We are not living in the 16th century, and I do not believe we should accomodate superstition, up-tight red-necks, puritan mentalities, and political or religious correctness. I have no empathy for those whose delicate, misguided, and archaic sensibilities are so easily "offended"... So they're "offended"... So frigging what! They can just shop elsewhere and stop trying to impose their very up-tight world view upon free and thinking people... And if anyone is offended by this post, I don't apologize and never will. Besides, it's a lot of fun getting such types so mad they bust a vein or two in what's left of their brains.

[RastaMahata]

this is an open source community, where freedom to choose is (one of) the most important things.
If you dont like it, change it. You have the freedom to do it. Dont say "it porn/sucks/etc", dumping the work of others. :( Please?

[james_mad]

If someone is offended by that original, I suggest they use Windows, subscribe to MSN, and get lost in the baby-picture swapping forums. We are not living in the 16th century, and I do not believe we should accomodate superstition, up-tight red-necks, puritan mentalities, and political or religious correctness. I have no empathy for those whose delicate, misguided, and archaic sensibilities are so easily "offended"... So they're "offended"... So frigging what! They can just shop elsewhere and stop trying to impose their very up-tight world view upon free and thinking people... And if anyone is offended by this post, I don't apologize and never will. Besides, it's a lot of fun getting such types so mad they bust a vein or two in what's left of their brains.
God bless you.

[jdong]

Ok, guys, cool it.

Try continuing this discussion at http://slashdot.org ;).

Edited to protect the innocent -PT

[poofyhairguy]

Ok, guys, cool it.

Try continuing this discussion at http://slashdot.org ;).


/.ers have beaten the issue of that login screen to death. Mark knew what he was doing whne he did it, it got Ubuntu's name on the map.

I mean....is the new one so bad?

[KiwiNZ]

Its just a log in screen . how long do people spend looking at it . Me about 5 seconds . OK at my typing speed 1 minute 45 seconds :razz:.

Sheesh what is all the fuss about ?????

*sigh*

[Glanz]

it got Ubuntu's name on the map. I mean....is the new one so bad?
Frankly, I like all of them, and I like being surprised by new ones. Variety is the spice of life. You know, like hot peppers on pizza.:razz:

[davidgypsy]

I don't consider either the login screen or the calander backgrounds to be offensive in any way. Nudity was created by God anyway! Adam and Eve were butt naked and not ashamed. It was only after the influence of Lucifer that they suddenly became aware that they didn't have any clothes on.

Any Christians (or assorted other fuddy duddy puritans) who are offended by nudity that is presented in good taste, remember, God created nudity, the devil made it seem like a bad thing.

I know what I am talking about too, I am an ordained Christian missionary! :)

[Lovechild]

I call for more pornographic logon screens, and more vulgar ones - give the people something to complain about.

I demand full girl on girl action logon screens, moving pictures and sound!

</joke>

Honestly I liked the human logon screen, but what Breezy carries right now isn't bad either - it's a logon screen I watch it for less than 30 secs, it takes more than that to get my blood boiling.

[WildTangent]

ok, whats the login screen everyones talking about? because human circle hardly matches any of the descriptions

-Wild

[davidgypsy]

ok, whats the login screen everyones talking about? because human circle hardly matches any of the descriptions

-Wild

I totally agree, nothing remotely offensive anywhere! It's kinda like a bad joke. :???:

[Lovechild]

ok, whats the login screen everyones talking about? because human circle hardly matches any of the descriptions

-Wild

I'm guessing these:
http://www.monkeyc.net/ubuntu/nu-ubuntu1.jpg
http://www.monkeyc.net/ubuntu/tn-nu-ubuntu2.jpg

Which were shipped with Warty's prerelease... as you can see, it's full frontal nudity - clearly unnatural and should be kept from the eyes of geeks and other small children.

:roll: :roll:

[eyequeue]

hoary=testing (you are a test rat)

Um, for the record, hoary is the current stable release, breezy is the current development release (and is presently to be avoided.)

[bored2k]

Um, for the record, hoary is the current stable release, breezy is the current development release (and is presently to be avoided.)
It wasn't when he wrote that.

[TravisNewman]

It wasn't when he wrote that.
Yep, this is what happens when old dead threads get ressurected ;)

[davidgypsy]

Yep, this is what happens when old dead threads get ressurected ;)

Now I remember why I belong to this forum!!!! O:)

[WildTangent]

i dont see whats so bad about it, i mean, do you actually see anything? doesnt look like it to me, but i just realised this is an ancient thread, so it doesnt even matter anyway. on my warhammer 40k forum, we close threads that are resurrected by so called "thread-o-mancers" just a thought mods ;)

-Wild

[Kyral]

I rather like the old one, but then again, I still would have changed it to suit my athstetic(sp?) tastes

I've attached the one I use :D

And if you are offended at that login screen, don't look at any of my Screenshots in the Art Gallery, because my wallpaper will offend you (I think)

[totalshredder]

Oh great, this thread again. This is the craziest thread I've started here. Just to try to clear it all up, I thought I heard it was a big deal with the people on the cover (but they were obviously refering to the ubuntu calendar.) And when I tried to hand some ubuntu CDs out at my church, some people thought it was really strange. That kinda drew me to start this thread (mostly to be funny :P) when I saw the new login thing. So, sorry for all that!

Luke

(Kyral, like half the forums aren't going to look at your art gallery submissions now ;) ;) )

[TravisNewman]

Sorry if anyone is following this, but this thread never needed to be brought back up after being long dead. It's just going to cause more controversy, and the calendar images don't seem to be involving nudity anymore, and the GDM has changed, so... closed.

Sorry for any inconvenience.