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Re: GDM / GNOME shell theming



Le 11/12/2014 21:47, Vincent Blut a écrit :
> Le jeu. 11 déc. 2014 à 21:30, Vincent Blut <vincent.debian@free.fr> a
> écrit :
>> Le jeu. 11 déc. 2014 à 18:57, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> a
>> écrit :
>>> On jeu., 2014-12-11 at 16:58 +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
>>>>  In fact Josselin's proposal was more specifically for the lock screen
>>>>  that is configured separately from the login screen for most
>>>> desktops.
>>>>  The uploaded package should let LightDM have the intended login theme
>>>>  (same as KDM).
>>>
>>> Indeed, I was not specifically talking about LightDM, but really about
>>> Joss proposal.
>>>>
>>>>  Besides I'm still not sure GDM login can be customized.
>>>
>>> No idea either :)
>>
>> Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it is defined in the
>> '#lockDialogGroup' CSS ID in
>> '/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css'. It seems to be a
>> greyish background
>> with 'noise-texture.png' on top of it.
>>
>> So yes, it’d be possible to have a 'background-image:
>> url("path/to/picture");'
>> property instead, but I’m not sure this would be welcomed by the
>> GNOME team‽
>
> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css
> gnome-shell-common: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css
>
> That means another upload of 'gnome-shell-common'. I’m not sure the
> release team would be pleased
> at this stage of the freeze :-/
>
> Cheers,
> Vincent
>
>

Anyway after a quick test it doesn’t look good by just changing the
login background and keeping the default GDM login elements.
It would need a bit more rework.

And doing the changes directly in gnome-shell-common also means you
can’t easily change it if you don’t like it.


Cheers,
--Aurélien


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