sddm: incongruous logo appearance on idle screen with ceratopsian
Hi desktop developers,
This may or may not be a bug - it's a question of aesthetics, I think.
When using SDDM as my login manager on Debian trixie, I felt that on
the login idle screen -- which appears after ~60 seconds of inactivity
-- the Debian name and logo and in the lower third of the display
seems kind of incongruous to me.
In particular, the black background behind the logo and text seems in
contrast to the gradually-transitioned colour styles elsewhere.
Another issue that perhaps exaggerages this is that the padding on the
left and right of the logo container box both seem quite narrow.
Some of this is configured using a theme.conf file provided by the
sddm-theme-debian-breeze package. Unfortunately I do not think that
simply making the black logo background transparent would solve the
problem, because the results might provide low text-colour contrast
(gray text on the light-ish blue text in particular).
The mailing list rules note no large attachments; and indeed a ~296K
attachment did not appear to reach the mailing list during my previous
attempt to post here. As such, please find a screenshot uploaded to
my fork of plasma-desktop on Salsa:
https://salsa.debian.org/jayaddison/plasma-desktop/-/blob/13e4bda4532e4ec278a6bafbf28e6c423799010d/debian/uploads/sddm-debian-logo-idle.png
(NB: to capture this, I used xwd with a tiny bash script that sleeps
for 90 seconds or so, run while su'd to the sddm user from a tty. the
sleep is required because switching back from the tty to the X console
and then leaving it idle is necessary for a successful repro and
capture of the idle screen)
Regards,
James
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