filipf added a comment.
But it seems to me like Nate's addressed or is addressing all the pitfalls regarding usability. The icons will have more contrast in a newer revision and from what I've seen in that diff there's an idea of adding a rectangle at the bottom to make the text there nicely legible. All the other textual elements seem just fine in my opinion. Aesthetically perhaps it would be preferable to avoid the outlines around text, but if it helps legibility it's fine. Otherwise I don't think there is aesthetic degradation here - and if there is, not blurring the wallpaper will compensate for it. And the new revision of the icons in particular looks very classy. The consistency argument actually seems like a stronger one here, but I don't see why the lock and login screens should necessarily be identical in design. You could use the circular icons in the logout and lock screen to help with this. The greatest consistency issue is more likely to be the SDDM theme disrespecting user customization, which is a different topic altogether. My opinion doesn't hold much weight, but it seems to me that: there was plenty of time to discuss the idea in the respective task, that the current project is at the finish line and that the potential objections do not seem grave enough to warrant going back to the drawing board, especially if there is no defined proposal as an alternative. REPOSITORY R120 Plasma Workspace BRANCH arcpatch-D16031 REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D16031 To: ngraham, #vdg, #plasma, rizzitello Cc: romangg, davidedmundson, rizzitello, abetts, pstefan, broulik, rikmills, filipf, rooty, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, sebas, apol, mart
