Thanks again - I've installed the updated desktop-base package from unstable, and yes: the sddm login idle screen now looks great.
Cheers, James On Fri, May 30, 2025, 23:01 Aurélien COUDERC <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve uploaded the fix, the package should reach unstable in the coming > hours. > > Happy hacking, > -- > Aurélien > > Le mercredi 28 mai 2025, 10:48:53 heure d’été d’Europe centrale James > Addison a écrit : > > 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 > > >>> > > > > > > >
