Re: sddm: incongruous logo appearance on idle screen with ceratopsian

I=E2=80=99ve uploaded the fix, the package should reach unstable in the com=
ing hours.

Happy hacking,
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Aur=C3=A9lien

Le mercredi 28 mai 2025, 10:48:53 heure d=E2=80=99=C3=A9t=C3=A9 d=E2=80=99E=
urope centrale James Addison a =C3=A9crit :
> 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 wat=
ch
> for the upload (desktop-base package, I think?) and will re-test when
> that becomes available.
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> Regards,
> James
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> On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 06:57, Aur=C3=A9lien COUDERC <libre-GGH/[email protected]> wr=
ote:
> >
> > 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 wo=
nder 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 versi=
on. 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 myste=
ry, though.)
> >>
> >> It is easy for me to cut a new version (without a logo, or with a cons=
istent background on the logo), but I am not sure whether the rest of the c=
hange 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/13e4bda4532=
e4ec278a6bafbf28e6c423799010d/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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