Do you like the new blue login screen in Zesty?

Ok, I want to try this, but I don't seem to have KDE SDDM on my system (KDE 17.04) and I don't see it in the repository. Can someone help me out here?

Thanks,
Rick

[Bings]

I Agree completely. Dislike the black splash screen. Not sure how to theme that part yet. You can however change the menu icon easy enough.

I've done a mock up of the old 16.10 splash screen. Extract the zip into /home/USERNAME/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/ then you can select it from System Settings/Workspace Theme/Splash Screen

If you go further into the extracted files /kubuntu1610/contents/splash/images you can change the background image. I just found a copy of the old default wallpaper and stuck a load of blur on it

kubuntu1610.zip

[Bings]

I actually quite like it, though I am admittedly a fan of more minimalist stuff like this.

However, is also a bit Windows 'boot screenish' which is, ummmmmm...

As said, I would like to hopefully, with feedback from the community, do a bit of a re-work of our look and feel for kubuntu. From boot, sddm, to spash, to desktop tweaks. So all feedback like this is great.

What would be good is if when a theme is changed, the old one is archived into the Look and Feel menu/store.kde.org. Also, when upgrading, a prompt option to whether to overwrite the theme in the same way there is a prompt to overwrite custom GRUB menus. At the moment, if you enjoy the default theme, it can get overwritten with no easy option to have it back.

[vinnywright]

I Agree completely. Dislike the black splash screen. Not sure how to theme that part yet. You can however change the menu icon easy enough.

Rog's imagesplash dose indeed let you change the background and splash for the login process ,,,,, quite well

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

What I like is that if I don't like something I can change it to something I do like. Ya gotta love Linux, especially Neon!

[acheron]

I really liked the old colour scheme for the login and how it logged in. This black background with the massive, horrible three dots and an arrow logo, not keen on it at all. I do not like the stupid logo as a launcher button either. The K in the cog one is much better.

I actually quite like it, though I am admittedly a fan of more minimalist stuff like this.

However, is also a bit Windows 'boot screenish' which is, ummmmmm...

As said, I would like to hopefully, with feedback from the community, do a bit of a re-work of our look and feel for kubuntu. From boot, sddm, to spash, to desktop tweaks. So all feedback like this is great.

[Rog131]

Generic plasma 5 image splash

Earlier Kubuntu Forums: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post398821

'The splash screens can be added by adding a 'Look and Feel' theme with only the splash part'

KDE System Settings > Workspace Theme > Look And Feel > Get New Looks...

KDE System Settings > Workspace Theme > Splash Screen ...

[Oderus]

I really liked the old colour scheme for the login and how it logged in. This black background with the massive, horrible three dots and an arrow logo, not keen on it at all. I do not like the stupid logo as a launcher button either. The K in the cog one is much better.

I Agree completely. Dislike the black splash screen. Not sure how to theme that part yet. You can however change the menu icon easy enough.

[Bings]

I really liked the old colour scheme for the login and how it logged in. This black background with the massive, horrible three dots and an arrow logo, not keen on it at all. I do not like the stupid logo as a launcher button either. The K in the cog one is much better.

[acheron]

Why now have the Kubuntu logo in the Kubuntu version? Seems easy enough. It's all about the BRANDING, after all.

Kubuntu logo where?

I do agree though. At least to the extent that it would be nice to bring some unobtrusive branding back into kubuntu.

Don't necessarily want to diverge too far from the default Plasma appearance IMO, but a few touches here and there to make it visibly kubuntu would be nice.

[vinnywright]

https://store.kde.org/p/1174674/
This in particular is wonderful. Allows you to have slideshow, video, playlist, etc on login screen with a near identical login style. I have tried it and customized it, and it's very nice.

+1 ,,,I am using that as well ATM Rog has a lot of good stuff and info ,,,,,,,

VINNY

[Oderus]

https://store.kde.org/p/1174674/
This in particular is wonderful. Allows you to have slideshow, video, playlist, etc on login screen with a near identical login style. I have tried it and customized it, and it's very nice.

[dequire]

Why now have the Kubuntu logo in the Kubuntu version? Seems easy enough. It's all about the BRANDING, after all.

[vinnywright]

yes I do like the blue ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

but their is a lot you can do with it

VINNY

[Rog131]

Zesty is shipping with Plasma 5.9 which comes with a very basic blue login screen, what are your thoughts on it?

Earlier - KDE Forums: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?...137502#p370239

The Breeze 5.9 SDDM greeter is supporting the image background and also supporting user configurable background color in the SDDM theme: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2983



The kcm-sddm module doesn't have the color picker. The user can add to the /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf.user the background color and the background type to the configuration file - example:

[General]
type=color
color=darkgreen

Colors are the Qt supported colors: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-color.html