Keeping up with branding changes

tomocafe

Since plata-noir development went dark (pun half intended) and misbehaving with updates to the GNOME stack (notifications most noticeably), I changed to materia-dark as is selected by default for Solus now.

But my login screen started to have black foreground text on a black background. I searched around and saw that there was a fix for it in the last weekly sync, but it wasn't working for me. It turns out I needed to install budgie-desktop-branding-fortitude-plus.

I'm on the same install since 2018 and have had this experience before, having to move to fortitude and now fortitude-plus.

Is there any way to just always be on the bleeding edge for this, rather than keep being left behind? I understand if others might not want that, but if there was another package like budgie-desktop-branding-latest which is always set to the bleeding edge, I would probably switch to that.

Solarmass

I am planning to use plata-noir till the end, because I like true dark theme and there is no alternative.
BTW have you seen the recent thread about Plata?
https://discuss.getsol.us/d/8247-plata-appreciation-and-its-future

tomocafe But my login screen started to have black foreground text on a black background.

I think I have a slightly different problem - password input field is the same color as foreground. I hate this!
The wallpaper on the login screen it the same tho. This is an newer installation, the older one is ok.

tomocafe notifications most noticeably

There was a fix for notifications last week, not perfect but usable.

tomocafe budgie-desktop-branding-fortitude-plus

I have it installed.

infinitymdm

I'm currently working on a fork of Plata called Platano. On my install, the password input box now has a white background for the line edit with dark text. I'll add this to my to-do list of fixes.

If you guys could find a way to get a screen capture of what yours looks like that would be super helpful. I understand it can be a bit difficult to do that before logging in. Take a photo with another device if you have to.

Solarmass

infinitymdm

Re: login screen

So I have 2 Solus systems: one old and one newer.

Old one: login screen looks ok, input area with the password input box have the same level of transparency (maybe 20-30). The only issue - is the wallpaper: it quickly changes to the wallpaper I have on the desktop.

Newer one: login screen kinda fixed itself after the last updates. But input area and the password input box have different level of transparency.

Picture from internet:

the whole "input area" + password input box (non-transparent here)