Visual design for logout/login/lockscreen

[Jens Reuterberg]

Yeah so as one of the "angry designers" coming here from the year 2042 - what 
are the issues that hinders the SVG being colored in by the theme? I mean is 
it a temporary issue or is it one that will be there forever and ever?

On Monday 07 April 2014 12.07.55 David Edmundson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 07 April 2014, David Edmundson wrote:
> >> I need to make a login screen based on Plasma 2 components regardless.
> >> I think it's worth going for.
> >> 
> >> I started writing some QML up yesterday; but I have some problems with
> >> doing in the white text/icons on a dark background in a manner that
> >> doesn't horribly suck.
> > 
> > text should work fine as long as is Label (buttons and lineedits should
> > just stay as they are)
> > so Label {
> > 
> >         color: theme.backgroundColor
> > 
> > }
> > and that's it.
> > 
> > for icons, unfortunately thay need to have inverted color themselves, at
> > least at the moment
> > so it can be either:
> > * in icons the file login.svgz contains all the needed icon files, but
> > they
> > are all inverted, therefore won't be possible to use them elsewhere
> 
> This would suck; for developers we'd have a random potluck of whether
> an icon can be seen or not. Theme developers would also have to draw
> to a somewhat arbitrary mix of colours.
> 
> > * or, there would be a single svg file for the whole login/logout thing,
> > so it contains more the stuff with inverted colors in one single file,
> > also the icons would be elements of that file (wouldn't be possible to
> > use IconItem, but a normalSvgItem would have to be used... who cares ;)
> 
> I care a bit. For some we want to use ToolButton so it's clear it's a
> clickable item - or we at least need to react on mouseover somehow.
> Again, I can hardcode it, but we start to lose flexibility and will
> have angry designers coming at us later in the future.
> 
> David
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