D16031: [SDDM theme] remove blur and increase UI contrast so that it's not required

[Roman Gilg]

romangg added a comment.


  In D16031#342263 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D16031#342263>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > [Just as a reminder: this is only for the login screen; the lock screen is not being touched]
  >
  > I wish the conceptual concerns had been brought up in T9658 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T9658> before I started implementing the design changes we agreed to there. It has been open for a month and I tagged #plasma <https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/plasma/> and #vdg <https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/vdg/>. If there is a better way to get people's attention, I'd like to know it.
  
  
  Without an example it was difficult to assess the visuals. This diff provides example pictures and it's difficult to read text and symbols on many of them.
  
  > Anyway, it's important that we remove the blur for aesthetic reasons. The blurry login screen background is the very first thing a new user sees, as well as what every existing user sees when they turn on their machine (regular people tend to turn their computers off when they're done with them, unlike us weirdos). We go our of our way to put the beautiful Plasma wallpaper there--only to ruin the effect by turning it into a dark blurry soup. User feedback has not been very positive, in contrast to the lock screen, which people love.
  
  More important than aesthetics is usability. The ui elements are often difficult to see even with the shadows. Also imo it doesn't look aesthetically pleasing if the ui elements are not distinct to the background.
  
  > We also need to preserve readability, of course, as that was the major driver for implementing the blur. This patch aims to do it without blur. I'm open to suggestions, but the blur has got to go.
  
  As said maybe we can have a similar timeout as on the lock screen. And directly after reboot we either hide controls or only show the user pic of the last logged in user plus the password field and on first input do blur + show other controls. Not sure what would work out in the end. But imo this solution proposal should go back into concept phase. Last word has VDG though. Is there consensus by VDG that this here is the solution to go with?

REPOSITORY
  R120 Plasma Workspace

BRANCH
  arcpatch-D16031

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D16031

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