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,
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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
>>
>>

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