davidedmundson added a comment.
The original rationale of the time of having the black background was to hide the flickering blank framebuffer as we switch from SDDM to the login - and we're autologigng in we're coming from a black background too. From a tech POV I like that because loading a wallpaper is quite CPU consuming. I don't think we can ship anything without a config, if a user can configure login background and desktop background, showing a "random" wallpaper in the middle is bound to get a negative reaction. And if we're going to put time into that, we may as well invest the time into getting rid of the splash screen (though properly, not just turning it off, but fixing why it's there) Shipping this as a separate splash screen to the black might be an acceptable short term solution. Having new designs as opt-in first is something I would like to encourage. REPOSITORY R120 Plasma Workspace BRANCH splash-screen-uses-next-wallpaper (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D19373 To: ngraham, #vdg, #plasma, rooty Cc: davidedmundson, filipf, rooty, plasma-devel, jraleigh, GB_2, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart
