> I thought I was going to get criticism for the dull and foggy color
> scheme and intense white levels of my background...
> 
> Here is a redone version with much richer coloration:  
> http://i49.tinypic.com/291cpq0.jpg

Well, the colors *are* richer.
 
> "We are going to be a lot more limited with the artwork than we used
> to be, as the upstream changes in gdm removed the theme support. We
> can just change the gtk/icon theme and the background image. I like
> the texture -not that much the colors- in your background image."
> 
> Why would they remove theme support!?

They say they did it to make better use of the xsplash boot screen
system -that we will not use, at least for this release-.

> You can't honestly tell me that a fast, modern computer in 2010 is
> going to choke on an image, can you? Is it really now impossible to
> include a load bar, or is it simply a matter of changing some source
> code around?

Well, we can _have_ a bar, but it will not show the progress as the new
start scripts coming from Ubuntu (upstart) do not work that way. So it
will just pulsate forth and back meaningless.

> To restate the question: why have recent updates elected to remove  
> functionality, breaking lots of beloved hard work of many
> contributors on gnome-look.org and elsewhere? Tell me the reason
> behind it, so that I may feel like a naive stupid.

We are just distributors, we just take the code we are given. In other
words, I dunno. But don't worry, you are not the only one pissed with
this changes.
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