Bug 449726

Summary: Lower drop shadows on lock screen text
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Unknown <null>
Component: Theme - BreezeAssignee: visual-design
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: minor CC: nate, null, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.23.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Attachments: Screenshot of current behavior

Description Unknown 2022-02-07 01:06:12 UTC
Created attachment 146369 [details]
Screenshot of current behavior

Remove drop shadows from the date and time on the lock screen. It looks out of place with the rest of the UI (especially with the default plasma wallpaper).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Lock your screen.
2. Wait until password dialog disappears.
3. Observe the date and time text.

OBSERVED RESULT
Drop shadow under text

EXPECTED RESULT
Less drop shadow

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Breeze SDDM theme
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-02-07 04:51:41 UTC
If we did that, the text would disappear if you uses a light colored or white background. No can do, sorry.
Comment 2 Unknown 2022-02-10 03:35:15 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> If we did that, the text would disappear if you uses a light colored or
> white background. No can do, sorry.

After some testing, I ended up upgrading to plasma 5.24, and now the drop shadow is very small when using the light theme, but the same as before with the dark theme. I do not know if this is intentional, but then shouldnt the text be not visible when using a light background in light mode, which is very common
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-02-10 17:27:03 UTC
That sounds like something different from what you originally reported, which means it should be in a new bug report. Can you please file one? In that new bug report, can you please attach two screenshots, one that shows the state with each affected color scheme? That way we can see and compare the two.