Bug 455525

Summary: when entering password/ fingerprint lock screen background becomes very bright, making light backgrounds hard to see and annoying
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: ostap-tymur-tymchenko <ostap.tymchenko>
Component: Theme - BreezeAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: bshah, natalie_clarius, nate, ostap.tymchenko, visual-design
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.24.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 6.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Lockscreen when typing password: Bright discoloration
Lockscreen before typing password: as originally set
before entering password field
after entering password field
Blurry date and dtime

Description ostap-tymur-tymchenko 2022-06-18 04:13:54 UTC
when entering password/ fingerprint lock screen background becomes very bright, making light backgrounds hard to see and annoying

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Meta + L
2. type in password or use fingerprint

OBSERVED RESULT
while typing in password the background becomes significantly brighter making for a worse experience with light backgrounds

EXPECTED RESULT
having the choise to disable it in Desktop effects or not having this at all


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-39-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics

Im not exactly sure if i filed this report correctly but ive tried
Comment 1 Natalie Clarius 2022-06-18 23:21:31 UTC
Created attachment 149908 [details]
Lockscreen when typing password: Bright discoloration
Comment 2 Natalie Clarius 2022-06-18 23:22:22 UTC
Created attachment 149909 [details]
Lockscreen before typing password: as originally set
Comment 3 Natalie Clarius 2022-06-18 23:23:03 UTC
I can confirm this with Plasma 5.25.0, X11, Arch.
Comment 4 ostap-tymur-tymchenko 2022-06-19 00:03:31 UTC
Created attachment 149912 [details]
before entering password field
Comment 5 ostap-tymur-tymchenko 2022-06-19 00:03:54 UTC
Created attachment 149913 [details]
after entering password field
Comment 6 Natalie Clarius 2022-06-19 23:44:30 UTC
Created attachment 149936 [details]
Blurry date and dtime

In addition, in the view before entering the password, the date and time is somewhat blurry.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2022-06-21 17:51:38 UTC
IIRC we have some detection for whether you have a light or a dark background and it applies different visual effects; maybe it's mis-identifying things here.
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2025-01-09 20:17:08 UTC
The detection appears to be working properly with a plain white background, at least in git master.