https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411890
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Ever confirmed|0 |1
Assignee|plasma-b...@kde.org |k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
CC| |filipfila....@gmail.com,
| |n...@kde.org
Summary|Add Breeze SDDM login |Expose theme-specific
|screen blur and font color |user-visible settings in
|settings |the KCM
Status|REPORTED |CONFIRMED
Component|general |kcm_sddm
Product|Breeze |systemsettings
--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
Your current user's color scheme and font preferences can be synced to the SDDM
login screen in the upcoming Plasma 5.17, which should take care of part of
this request.
As for the blur, that's tricky. The first problem is that the SDDM KCM doesn't
expose any theme-specific options, so there's no way for the default Breeze
SDDM theme to offer a way to turn off the blur. Even if we could, that would
offer the possibility of making the buttons and their text unreadable with the
current design.
You might ask, then, "well, why don't you just change the design, duh?"
This is easier said then done! :) The current design is the result of a lot of
refinement and discussion. In the Plasma 5.16 timeframe we had multiple
discussions regarding alternative designs that would not require a blurred
background. The problem is that we allow users to set arbitrary wallpapers
here, so we need some way to make sure that the things on top of the wallpaper
remain visible, no matter what it is. There are only a few options:
1. Blur and darken the wallpaper
2. Put outlines or shadows behind everything
2. Put everything inside/on top of a frame or window that's above the wallpaper
#1 Is the status quo.
#2 Is what we do this for Desktop icons, but we could not find a way to make
this work serviceably for the lock screen's use case. The possibilities for the
wallpaper were too broad for us to be comfortable implementing it.
#3 is a complete redesign.
Personally I was pushing for #3, but like so many things in life (and
especially with a large and complex project that involves other people),
sometimes you don't get exactly what you want and that's what happened here. So
we stuck with #1 but reduced the darkness and blurriness of the blur. This
reduced the number of complaints, but I had a feeling that some people would
still not be satisfied.
Given that there is no remaining interest or energy in touching the login
screen for quite some time (the discussions were exhausting), the only path
forward I see here is making the blur completely disable-able, which would
require changes in both the theme and the SDDM KCM to display per-theme
user-visible options.
Moving there for now.
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