| Summary: | Breeze SDDM theme has a very strong shadow in the clock and date texts and they look weird with lighter backgrounds | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] Breeze | Reporter: | Photon <ncqm3qdz> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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The current text shadow doesn't play well with lighter backgrounds
Lockscreen text shadow comparison Breeze and Breeze Fedora Lockscreen in Neon 5.23 Lock and logout |
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Description
Photon
2021-11-01 04:23:45 UTC
Created attachment 143074 [details]
Lockscreen text shadow comparison
Created attachment 143075 [details]
Breeze and Breeze Fedora
Also, if I'm not mistaken, Kubuntu has two SDDM themes too. I think one if a fork of the another. Created attachment 143076 [details]
Lockscreen in Neon 5.23
This is the intended appearance. Unfortunately there is no way to make the shadow look good for every possible background: 1. If the shadow is hard like this, we get complaints from people with light colored backgrounds with large areas of a single color 2. If the shadow is softened, we get complaints from people with light-colored backgrounds that are very visually busy In the end we need to decide who wins, and #2 wins because it's a legibility problem, while #1 is only an aesthetic problem. Better to be always legible but sometimes ugly than sometimes pretty but sometimes hard to read. So the change was reverted? I remember that for a while the lock screen text appeared with a soft shadow. And a commit was made [https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/9004b1911ed0e106d95d47e28fe90063071f619c]. But somehow the old shadow is appearing again. Created attachment 144697 [details]
Lock and logout
I discovered what's going on: the old shadow design appears when you are logged in and lock the session. The new shadow design appears if you logout and leave SDDM idle until the screen turns off (you must activate the screen later of course).
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