Greeter

pantheon greeter affected by wallpaper

Bug #1011958 reported by Yaseen Noorani
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Greeter
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Greeter 1.0

Bug Description

Having seen the mockup of Pantheon greeter by DanRabbit http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/#/d4xz9pa and a video of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6QKjnyfck4 I realised that if a user has a wallpaper that has a whitish colour in the area where the names of the inactive users are, these names would be very difficult to read. The same would go for the time are.

Here's an image with some explanation: http://i.imgur.com/aFpcB.png .

The same thing had happened in the Unity greeter with me and it would best be avoided in Luna.
One way of avoiding this problem would be to have a semi-transparent layer of black on top of the wallpaper but below the text so that the text can still be seen clearly.

Revision history for this message
Tristan Cormier (tristanc) wrote :

The text has a black contour. Isn't that enough to make it visible on white backgrounds? Sorry for making assumptions and please know I don't have much experience in design, but I am just wondering.

Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
affects: elementaryos → pantheon-greeter
Revision history for this message
Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann) wrote :

You get a big smooth shadows now, which will make the text readable even on a pure white background.

Changed in pantheon-greeter:
status: New → Fix Committed
Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
Changed in pantheon-greeter:
milestone: none → luna-beta1
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
Changed in pantheon-greeter:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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