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 Aur=C3=A9lien 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, Aur=C3=A9lien COUDERC <libre-GGH/[email protected]> wrot=
e:
>
> 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,
> --
> Aur=C3=A9lien
>
>
> Le 28 mai 2025 01:34:25 GMT+02:00, PC Couper <[email protected]> a =C3=
=A9crit :
>>
>> If it is in the svg file itself as opposed to a separate element, I wond=
er if there's a version control issue when I handed it off. I tried just ab=
out 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 c=
ouldn'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 consis=
tent background on the logo), but I am not sure whether the rest of the cha=
nge 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/13e4bda4532e4=
ec278a6bafbf28e6c423799010d/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
>>>