[Breeze] [Bug 373668] Tiny keyboard layout indicator is the Lock Screen

[Jens Reuterberg]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373668

Jens Reuterberg <jensreu at kolabnow.com> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Jens Reuterberg <jensreu at kolabnow.com> ---
Ok I think this discussion needs to mellow out a tad... 

BACKGROUND TO CURRENT PLACEMENT:
The assumption was that the users who did need it would find it, where as the
users who didn't need it wouldn't have the entire screen muddled up with
different controls. 
This in combination with the motivation to make the act of starting and
shutting down feel like one unified whole instead of different aspects of the
DE handing over to each other. 
Now that was designed slightly before the fact that the keyboard layout isn't
visible if you don't have another keyboard layout installed - which sorta turns
the tables. That leaves another issue - will putting every single control on
prime real estate solve the issue? It will for you (Anton) because that is what
you personally need - but will it do that for all or will that as well as the
switcher for different DE's (which would then have to be moved as well) just
clog up the controls? 

WHAT TO DO:
Looking at SDDM - the key task there is to fill in your password (which is why
its centered). The second task is to switch users, the third is to shut down
the computer, reboot etc.
The date/time is there to ensure the similarity between the login and the lock
screen visually. 

So whatever we change here - will affect the design of Lock Screen, etc. 

There is a future addon for the lock screen (not SDDM) where you can control
the music player and that will be placed in the center column of the lock
screen but underneath. We could dedicate that area to it BUT that may also
result in some issues like a TON of stuff clogging it up. 
Making the buttons bigger would be interesting but that wont fix much either in
the long run since the reason they are pushed away to the sides is to 1) get
them out of the way as not being universally relevant objects and 2) get some
kind of balance (and not make it look like a middle school book report (center
aligned text everywhere)). 

So what we need is something that not only displays the lesser relevance of the
keyboard layout in comparison with login etc - but also balances it out.


TL;DR its an issue, but a slightly fiddlier one than one may think

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