Bug 395534

Summary:	The new Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen animation/blur/multi-state features don't turn off when using a solid color
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	uRohan <navigator.rohan>
Component:	Theme - Breeze	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bhush94, kde, nate, notmart, null, plasma-bugs, sonichedgehog_hyperblast00
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.17.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen: Before animation⁄transition Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen: After animation⁄transition Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen: After animation⁄transition with media controls SDDM Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen - Wallpaper type: Image: Before animation⁄transition Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen - Wallpaper type: Image: After animation⁄transition Screen

Description uRohan 2018-06-17 18:49:14 UTC

The new Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen feature that was introduced during the weekly report "Usability & Productivity, part 16". [https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/04/29/this-week-in-usability-productivity-part-16-new-lock-and-login-screens/]

This feature (I mean: hiding the user's avatar, blurring, animation, text shadow) should be optional (enable/disable).
I am a big fan of a Breeze theme (with defaul blue background) for SDDM  and lock screen because of its design. The design looks complex and unitary **(similar screens should looks the same)**. Now it's not like that (I mean this blank lock screen which precedes the animation), the lock screen just does not supplement the SDDM theme.

As for me the idea of linking the GRUB2 theme, the SDDM and the Lock Screen is just wonderful. I like this mockups: [https://phabricator.kde.org/M45].


This is just my IMHO, if I was rude sorry. I really appreciate your work.

Phabricator Diffusion: [https://phabricator.kde.org/source/kscreenlocker/repository/master/]

Comment 1 uRohan 2018-06-17 18:56:21 UTC

Created attachment 113394 [details]
Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen: Before animation⁄transition

Comment 2 uRohan 2018-06-17 18:56:40 UTC

Created attachment 113395 [details]
Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen: After animation⁄transition

Comment 3 uRohan 2018-06-17 18:57:20 UTC

Created attachment 113396 [details]
Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen: After animation⁄transition with media controls

Comment 4 uRohan 2018-06-17 20:49:28 UTC

Created attachment 113398 [details]
SDDM

Comment 5 uRohan 2018-06-17 21:26:34 UTC

*This features (I mean: hiding the user's avatar, blurring, animation, text shadow) should be optional (enable/disable).

Comment 6 uRohan 2018-06-17 21:45:09 UTC

Created attachment 113400 [details]
Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen - Wallpaper type: Image: Before animation⁄transition

Comment 7 uRohan 2018-06-17 21:45:27 UTC

Created attachment 113401 [details]
Plasma 5.13 Lock Screen - Wallpaper type: Image: After animation⁄transition

Comment 8 David Edmundson 2018-06-18 04:24:18 UTC

Is your background set to be a single colour rather than an image?

Comment 9 Mircea Kitsune 2018-06-18 11:10:24 UTC

I agree with this and support the request. The new features have their use, but they should indeed be optional! I also believe they should be more customizable, such as the blur intensity or the fade-to color.

Comment 10 uRohan 2018-06-18 18:38:36 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #8)
> Is your background set to be a single colour rather than an image?

Yes, but it is not about this.

Comment 11 David Edmundson 2018-06-18 19:58:05 UTC

>Yes, but it is not about this.

It is, because I want to understand details of the underlying problem.

Comment 12 uRohan 2018-06-19 03:22:47 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #11)
> >Yes, but it is not about this.
> 
> It is, because I want to understand details of the underlying problem.

Sorry, I should have guessed.

Comment 13 uRohan 2018-06-19 05:40:47 UTC

Also I noticed that the battery icon on the right bottom corner is super small in SDDM screen. Like in this bugreport - Bug 380826 [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380826] but for me it is conversely (the Lock Screen battery icon is normal, but SDDM screen battery icon is tiny).

Probably, for this issue it would be better to make a separate report, but I did not understand to which component it belongs.

I had not figure out how to make an SDDM screenshot.

Comment 14 Nate Graham 2018-06-27 18:18:21 UTC

Hmm, if you set your background to be a solid color, the animation is supposed to turn off automatically.

Comment 15 Nate Graham 2020-07-24 18:19:38 UTC

Cannot reproduce in Plasma 5.19. Can you?

Comment 16 uRohan 2020-07-24 20:51:27 UTC

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20200720
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.72.0
Qt Version: 5.15.0
Kernel Version: 5.7.9-1-default
OS Type: 64-bit

Yes, I can.

Comment 17 uRohan 2020-07-24 20:52:49 UTC

Created attachment 130379 [details]
Screen

Comment 18 uRohan 2020-07-24 20:56:21 UTC

I no longer know if this is a bug or a normal phenomenon.

Comment 19 Nate Graham 2020-07-24 22:41:26 UTC

Oh goodness, I see now.

So this is technically intentional, but clearly the effect is not amazing, as blurring a solid color has no effect, and the darkening effect we apply can cause the color to get all warped looking.