In the spirit of eye candy and the "Consistent and Easy to Use Login Screen and Unlock Screensaver"[1] specification, I've made a human gnome-screensaver lock dialog theme.
Currently, this is what the screensaver unlock dialog looks like: http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/gnome-screensaver-default.png And with the new human theme for users with and without faces: http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/01-human-gnome-screensaver.png http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/02-human-gnome-screensaver.png http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/03-human-gnome-screensaver.png http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/04-human-gnome-screensaver.png You can download it here: http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/gnome-screensaver-human.tar.bz2 This makes the screensaver unlock use the same images as the gdm login albeit scaled down. Doing this increases the overall desktop experience and wow factor of Ubuntu slightly by adding consistency. No strings are changed that require translation, no package is seriously modifed, and nothing risky happens. It is a glade file, a dialog specific gtkrc, and 2 images that need to be added to the gnome-screensaver package. The glade file is just a modified version of the current default. I'm asking for a freeze break for this simply because it is a non-intrusive change that makes Ubuntu look better. Besides my being an idiot and missing the artwork / betafreeze, are there any good reasons to _not_ ship this with gutsy? Perhaps it could be included after the beta freeze? Installation: - Extract the contents of gnome-screensaver-human.tar.bz2 into /usr/share/gnome-screensaver. - Run 'gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme human' Reverting back to the default: - Run 'gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme default' [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnifiedLoginUnlock -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art