Re: sddm: incongruous logo appearance on idle screen with ceratopsian
Thanks both for checking this (and thank you Elise for creating the
theme!), and thank you Aurélien for figuring out that fix. I'll watch
for the upload (desktop-base package, I think?) and will re-test when
that becomes available.
Regards,
James
On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 06:57, Aurélien COUDERC <libre@coucouf.fr> wrote:
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> It's an issue with the rendering of the logo SVG file in the Qt stack.
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> Ungrouping / regrouping the element and saving in inkscape made it work.
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> I have a fixed version pending upload.
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>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> Aurélien
>
>
> Le 28 mai 2025 01:34:25 GMT+02:00, PC Couper <couperpc@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> If it is in the svg file itself as opposed to a separate element, I wonder if there's a version control issue when I handed it off. I tried just about every logo placement before removing it entirely from the final version. Every placement landed in an awkward spot for some DE's login screen; I couldn't find a consistently good option. (The logo background is a mystery, though.)
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>> It is easy for me to cut a new version (without a logo, or with a consistent background on the logo), but I am not sure whether the rest of the change process is that simple. I will defer to the experts on that.
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>> Elise
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>>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2025, 5:57 PM James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> wrote:
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>>> 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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