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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's an issue with the rendering of the logo SVG file in the Qt stack. > > Ungrouping / regrouping the element and saving in inkscape made it work. > > I have a fixed version pending upload. > > > Happy hacking, > -- > Aurélien > > > Le 28 mai 2025 01:34:25 GMT+02:00, PC Couper <[email protected]> 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.) >> >> 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. >> >> Elise >> >> >> On Tue, May 27, 2025, 5:57 PM James Addison <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>>
