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Re: Office or day-care?
by DCMonkey on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @01:04

Even people with integrity may not realize that their choice of decor is impacting other users via increased bandwidth usage (at least during first connection to the shared system). There are also the issues with 8-bit display that are mentioned in the article.

Maybe the users should actually have windows open with actual work in them rather than staring at their pretty desktop all day.

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Re: Office or day-care?
by kdeFan on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @01:35

The reasons you mention may be legitimate, but he's talking about approving the content of all the images to make sure they're "politically correct". That's a different issue than what you're addressing.

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Doh!
by DCMonkey on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @02:10

You're right! That'll teach me to get lazy and just skim the end of the article. :)

FWIW, we let our users pick their own wallpaper.

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Re: Office or day-care?
by hyrcan on Saturday 27/Oct/2001, @07:51

You forget that these are images being offered by the CITY, and therefore must be acceptable to anyone. Thus the need to be "politically correct" is there not only because it is required by other employees who may not want to see a half naked man/women or some other ethnicly/politicly/religious/* charged image when they walk by your terminal...

I know quite a few people would be upset if I were to have on my computer the picture by Andres Serrano "Piss Christ" as my background much less offer it so other people would see it when they were choosing their own back ground...

but it's a CYA effort as well.(with good reason)

FYI - Serrano's Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine. In the late-1980s, the work prompted an intense national debate over government funding of the arts.

You can find a copy of it at:

http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/502.html

It's not really that bad if you don't know why the picture is yellowish...

Hyrcan
the happy godless heathen

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Re: Office or day-care?
by Mike Richardson on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @07:40

How does a wallpaper impact anything? Does it lean out from the screen and hit the user? Now, I can understand that it can have an <b>affect</b> ...

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Re: Office or day-care?
by Pedant on Monday 13/Aug/2001, @11:54

> Now, I can understand that it can have an
> affect

ITYM "effect". HTH.

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Re: Office or day-care?
by Kwantus on Monday 13/Aug/2001, @20:55

I presume you meant *EFFECT*

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Re: Office or day-care?
by Krishna Sethuraman on Monday 13/Aug/2001, @17:15

Gee, I thought that that was one of the best things about linux is that you can have windows (rxvt's?) open with actual work in them <strong>as well as</strong> stare at their pretty desktop all day (in their transparent background).

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