Comment 17 for bug 549268

On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 15:08 +0000, Matt Perry wrote:
> It improves the user experience because the wallpaper is part of the
> theme. The widgets that make up the theme, combined with the wallpaper,
> make the whole of the visual experience that the user sees when they
> first use Ubuntu.
Yes , that is why we already /do/ set the wallpaper for the system.

> In my experience, one of the first things users do on
> a new operating system is explore the appearance settings, second only
> to changing the desktop background.

Yes, but as a user changing and trying the wallpapers, where would a user look to revert the wallpaper back to default? > In the backgrounds tab .
But this prompt is in a totally different tab. Why would a user expect to look for the prompt to revert wallpaper in the themes tab? How are we helping the user here?

Also , the default wallpaper is always listed in the backgrounds tab, isnt it easier for the user to preview-and-set what they want to use than to blindly revert?

This change would be trying to *incompletely* solve something for a very limited user scenario.
Users who change from default wallpaper and doesnt like anything else and would like to revert to default and doesnt remember the default wallpaper.
Which is a very limited compared to number of users it will end up annoying and obstructing.

> I agree that it might be questionable if this is a papercut, but it fit
> the criteria,
Yes it is a simple fix , but after using the change and trying it out is what makes me think this is more of a problem than trying to solve anything.

If we implement this I would expect users to file bugs saying , :"I know the default wallpaper and i dont want to use it. Why are you prompting me for something I know and have changed on purpose?" Or "How do i remove this prompt?"