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nothing to do with "political correcntess"
by Mike on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @03:24

It's not "political correctness", it's a support issue: background images run the server out of color map entries. Apparently, even in this forum, many people are unaware of the problems that background images cause on 8bit screens.

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Re: nothing to do with "political correcntess"
by kdeFan on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @03:53

If you read the first point under the "Configuration" heading, you'll notice that political (in)correctness was his stated reason for wanting users to choose from an approved list. He does want to turn off wallpapers on 8-bit displays - that's a different issue.

<<Apparently, even in this forum, many people are unaware of the problems that background images cause on 8bit screens.>>
That's not what I'm talking about, and there's no need to be pretentious.

I think my first post was unclear and badly worded. I really didn't mean to suggest that the feature requested doesn't have legitimate uses; I was just surprised that his employer would have such a policy in place. Others have mentioned the possibility of litigation as being the cause of the policy, which is probably accurate. It seems odd to hold the company liable for individuals' actions so long as management deals with infractions properly as soon as they are brought up, but I'm not a lawyer. And I prefer to treat people as adults until they prove that they can't handle it.

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Re: nothing to do with "political correcntess"
by Jo Øiongen on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @05:56

The thing is that where I'm currently working there were people who showed that they could not handle it. The sad thing about this is that there are most likely othere places where this aplies too. So I support the feature to be able to turn of walpapers.

Now I just have to find a way to swap the NT/Citrix servers with Linux/KDE/Citriux servers...

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Re: nothing to do with "political correcntess"
by Teun on Monday 13/Aug/2001, @16:20

You touch the sore point.
In the US of A there is hardly privacy in the company computer you're using, just have a look at the snooping discussions.
And this is another reason to declare the working environment in the computer private.
That way it becomes so much harder for a 'fiend of his/her own sex' to sue the company/city for what a single employe does on his computer.
Only the results of your working day/project should count.

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