Re: [ART] Background image for login manager and desktop

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:19:03PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> I was wondering whether it’d be relevant to add a logo somewhere, but
>>> maybe not: it’s nice that it’s all “slick.”
>>
>> I wondered if I should bring it up ;-)  It is nice to not have a logo on
>> the desktop background screen. There could be one on the login screen,
>> though.
>
> Does slim allow us to place a logo somewhere or does it have to be baked
> into the background image?

Quoting the ‘THEMES’ file in SLiM:

  GENERAL CONCEPT
      A SLiM theme essentially consists of:
      - a background image (background.png or background.jpg)
      - a panel image (panel.png or panel.jpg)
      - input box(es) and messages and their placement
        and properties (slim.theme)

      The panel and background images can be a PNG or JPEG file.
      The panel is blended into the background image,
      taking care of alpha transparency.

I suppose the logo could go into the “panel image.”  I’ll try that.

Felipe, feel free to commit the background as SVG in guix-artwork.git.

Thanks!

Ludo’.