hmm - the grid change was made by linux mint upstream a while back hence the observation between buster and now.
I'm wondering if adding a Suggests: or possibly a Recommendation: for the package lightdm-settings would be better here so that end users will have a more obvious "this thing is actually configurable" - so adding a grid if they want, their own background etc etc. On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 19:00, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > > Package: slick-greeter > Version: 1.3.2+dfsg.1-2 > Severity: wishlist > > > Hi! > Perhaps this is just a minor aesthetic thing, but as most people don't > touch defaults, their installations end up ugly. > > On stock Debian install, slick-greeter has a small login window on the > middle left, a bar at the top, while the entire rest of the screen is > blank. On Buster and below, the blank part included a subtle pixel grid, > while on Bullseye it's solid black. The former was simple but > good-looking, while the latter appears so bare and unfinished that it > makes people wonder if the greeter fully loaded. > > I for one felt only an aesthetic regression (a matter of taste), but > someone else looking at my screen just insinuated that the greeter is > corrupted somehow. And it indeed looks that way... > > > Meow! > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bullseye/sid > APT prefers unstable-debug > APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), > (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-rc7-00065-g232f90a1c119 (SMP w/64 CPU threads) > Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) > > Versions of packages slick-greeter depends on: > ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.36.0-1 > ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2 > ii libc6 2.31-2 > ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4 > ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4 > ii libcanberra0 0.30-7 > ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-5 > ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.4-1 > ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.20-1 > ii liblightdm-gobject-1-0 1.26.0-7 > ii libpango-1.0-0 1.44.7-4 > ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.44.7-4 > ii libx11-6 2:1.6.9-2+b1 > ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 > ii lightdm 1.26.0-7 > ii python3 3.8.2-3 > ii python3-gi 3.36.0-4 > > slick-greeter recommends no packages. > > slick-greeter suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information
