Ubuntu
unity-greeter package

The entry "Guest Session" and the Ubuntu logo are barely visible when a bright wallpaper is selected.

Bug #947547 reported by Andrea Virgillito on 2012-03-05

This bug affects 12 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ayatana Design	New	Undecided	Otto Greenslade
	unity-greeter (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

The entry "Guest Session" and the Ubuntu logo are barely visible when a bright wallpaper is selected.
These elements need a darker background for a better accessibility.

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Andrea Virgillito (andrea900) wrote on 2012-03-05:

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description:	updated
description:	updated
summary:	- User entries in LightDM are barely visible when a bright wallpaper is - selected + The entry "Guest Session" and the Ubuntu logo are barely visible when a + bright wallpaper is selected.

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2012-03-20

affects:	lightdm-gtk-greeter → unity-greeter
Changed in lightdm-webkit-greeter:
status:	New → Invalid

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) on 2012-03-30

affects:	lightdm-webkit-greeter → ayatana-design
Changed in ayatana-design:
status:	Invalid → New

John Lea (johnlea) on 2012-04-25

Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee:	nobody → Otto Greenslade (otto-chaotic)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-05-02:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2012-10-02:

Need design input on what to do in these cases. Note you can run unity-greeter in a test mode with the following from a terminal:
$ unity-greeter --test
In this mode there is a list of fake users that test the different cases in the greeter. See "Black Background" and "White Background" to see how the greeter behaves with dark and light backgrounds.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity-greeter:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2012-10-02:

That should be:
$ unity-greeter --test-mode

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Mo-Yu Mandy Zhou (zhou-mandy) wrote on 2012-10-02:

The username on the top left is also difficult to read. On light gray wallpapers it practically blends into the top bar. I submitted this as part of a bug (Bug #1042417) but it was just marked as a duplicate of this one. Shouldn't be too hard to fix; the time on the top right of the screen is much more readable, so if the formatting of the username is made to match that of the time, it should look much better.

As for the readability of 'Guest Session' and the logo, perhaps you could put a shadow behind those to make them stand out from a light background.

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2013-11-10

no longer affects:

unity-greeter