Before plasma 5.24.0, the font size of the user names and avatar sizes on the SDDM login screen was very similar to the lock screen. This is IMO how it should be. Now after upgrading to >= 5.24.0, the fonts became too big and they now look clumsy. This is a regression somehow connected to plasma 5.24 I'm using a monitor with 144 DPI and have explicitly set the DPI in /etc/sddm.conf.d in a file containing [XDisplay] ServerArguments=-dpi 144 Setting it to t.ex. 142 DPI gives smaller fonts on the login screen, but that affects the avatars a lot, they become too small. So there's no way to work around the problem. I tried the KDE breeze theme and openSUSE, the effect is the same. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220219 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90 Qt Version: 5.15.2
The font size should look the same on the lock and login screens if you've synced your Plasma settings to SDDM using System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Login Screen (SDDM) > Apply Plasma Settings. Can you do that, or do it again? See if that fixes the issue for you.
OK, the plasma settings were not synced. I did that now, and in fact, it became a bit better, but still the fonts are too big. I attached a few photos from my mobile (very unprofessional, but I don't know how to do screenshots of these screens).
Created attachment 147034 [details] Login screen with plasma 5.24, plasma settings not applied
Created attachment 147035 [details] Login screen with plasma settings applied
Created attachment 147036 [details] Lock screen, sizing of fonts and widgets as it should be
Created attachment 147037 [details] Login screen as it was with plasma 5.23.5 (plasma settings not applied)
Thanks. What you are seeing is an intentional design change. We thought the names were too small before. However with your screenshots I see that the true source of distress is that the size change now make your name get elided! That's silly. I'll fix it.
Yes, the elision of our last names is definitely a problem, too. However, I think the font and widget size of the lock screen are perfect, so this is IMO what would be the best design for the login screen, too. As big as it is now, it's just a bit exaggerated. This could be a result of some scaling that the X server applies for my High-DPI monitor (4k 32"), too.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1488
Git commit a630dfb6b6bbe6edc4a0246f309ca6632f763711 by Nate Graham. Committed on 23/02/2022 at 23:24. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. SDDM theme: stop eliding people's names so aggressively When more than one user is shown on the login screen, username labels are limited to the width of the avatar so they don't overlap one another. However they are not allowed to become multi-line strings, so they can get elided if they are not somewhat short. This was worsened recently by a change in Plasma 5.24 to increase the size of the username labels, which shortened the amount of text that can be seen without eliding. This commit fixes that problem by allowing constrained username labels to become multi-line strings with up to 3 lines, and adjusting the surrounding layout to visually accommodate this. FIXED-IN: 5.24.3 M +7 -0 lookandfeel/contents/components/SessionManagementScreen.qml M +11 -14 lookandfeel/contents/components/UserDelegate.qml M +2 -1 lookandfeel/contents/components/UserList.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/a630dfb6b6bbe6edc4a0246f309ca6632f763711
Git commit 9b307559ef19a773576c745d65b337ff287d475f by Nate Graham. Committed on 24/02/2022 at 02:40. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.24'. SDDM theme: stop eliding people's names so aggressively When more than one user is shown on the login screen, username labels are limited to the width of the avatar so they don't overlap one another. However they are not allowed to become multi-line strings, so they can get elided if they are not somewhat short. This was worsened recently by a change in Plasma 5.24 to increase the size of the username labels, which shortened the amount of text that can be seen without eliding. This commit fixes that problem by allowing constrained username labels to become multi-line strings with up to 3 lines, and adjusting the surrounding layout to visually accommodate this. FIXED-IN: 5.24.3 (cherry picked from commit a630dfb6b6bbe6edc4a0246f309ca6632f763711) M +7 -0 lookandfeel/contents/components/SessionManagementScreen.qml M +12 -15 lookandfeel/contents/components/UserDelegate.qml M +2 -1 lookandfeel/contents/components/UserList.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/9b307559ef19a773576c745d65b337ff287d475f