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 > >
