Debian Squeeze updates gdm3 today, and goofy spaceship theme is on the login screen too

I wrote yesterday about the "whimsical spaceship" (that's a good name, don't you think?) theme coming to the Debian Squeeze desktop and Grub screen and wondering why the login screen still was so Lennyish.

Today a new gdm3 package rolled into Squeeze, and once it installed (I've been using Aptitude on the command line to do the updates) I logged out and saw yet more spaceship whimsy.

There have been a few comments on how whimsical spaceship isn't the sophisticated kind of design one wants on one's desktop. I understand that feeling, but I'm OK enough with the new theme to keep it. I like spaceships. I'm OK with whimsy. I guess I'm a sentimental, whimsical type myself (ah ... processors in the MHz era ... those were the days ... adm3a terminals that looked right out of "2001: A Space Odyssey" ....).

It turns out that Debian calls this theme "SpaceFun," and there just happens to be a page dedicated to it and its images on the Debian Wiki.

Submitted for your approval is the image used for the login/GDM screen. Click it to see a full 1024x768 image.