Don't change the wallpaper from login to splashscreen
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i think it would look more professional and give a more seamless impression if the wallpaper used at kdm login would not change at the moment the kde splash appears.. i think one wallpaper change during login is enough
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As far as I know, KDM, splash and desktop wallpaper are different apps/things. However you cam set same picture in any/all of them manually (or its done by your distro). Its quite easy.
Having different a different backgrounds allows designers to create nice effects. They are also useful, since they give user feedback about your OS *booting* status. |
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I know they are different apps, but I've always wondered what the purpose of a separate KDE splash screen is, I think that when the system is using KDM, there should be no KDE splash screen per say, just the KDM screen with a "loading" message/throbber/percentage bar.
The splash screen would appear only if the user is using another logon manager (i.e GDM) to load KDE.
Proudly dual-booting openSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.3 and Windows Vista on a Toshiba A205-S4577 since July 2007.
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The, "SimpleSmall" splash screen only uses a small box, letting the background show from KDM and then from Plasma. Maybe something similar could be done for Oxygen/Air splash screens? Or is it just plain ugly?
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The showing of KDM's background is actually a bug, and that would be vulnerable to showing "corruption" effects.
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As far as I'm informed it is planed that KDM will use Plasma to show itself in future. Then I think the backgrounds of KDM, the KDE Splash-screen and Plasma will be the same.
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It wouldn't be that bad if kdm and the start splash used the same aspect ratio. I have a 16:10 screen and it seems that kdm displays the background centered (or resized with aspect ratio kept) while KDE's splash resizes the background completely which results in a small flickering when the background gets resized.
I especially noticed this in openSuse where kdm and start splash look very identical. Even they have that problem with resizing background. |
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I don't think this is really valid anymore, since both the KDM screen and splash screen are being ported to plasma.
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TheBlackCat: link to confirm this? Then we can mark this as in progress.
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It is already partially ported as a gsoc.
http://sreich.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-g ... tatus.html but it is still a work in progress and I don't know if someone is currently maintaining/working on it |
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