Login screen/Code input Design

[kugiigi]

If you have a test device that you can reflash easily, you can install an IDE or text editor (i.e. Geany) in your root and use X-forwarding so that you can modify QML files directly and restart Lomiri. Just make sure your device automatically starts ssh upon boot so you can still connect to it and fix in case something goes wrong. Also, of course, backup first the original QML files.

[aarontheissueguy]

@kugiigi

I think something like this with the default keyboard is the most realistic approach for a suggestion. @purplevvay do you have time to create mock-ups for the different orientations and desktop? Maby an emergency button could sit in the top left corner.
I will try to get a design working in unity/lomiri in the meantime.

[aarontheissueguy]

@kugiigi I installed nano and modify stuff through ssh. That works pretty well and I can easily recover by undoing my changes.

[purplevvay]

@kugiigi said in Login screen/Code input Design:

If you have a test device that you can reflash easily, you can install an IDE or text editor (i.e. Geany) in your root and use X-forwarding so that you can modify QML files directly and restart Lomiri. Just make sure your device automatically starts ssh upon boot so you can still connect to it and fix in case something goes wrong. Also, of course, backup first the original QML files.

Unfortunately I don't have test device, but thanks anyway.

@aarontheissueguy said in Login screen/Code input Design:

@purplevvay do you have time to create mock-ups for the different orientations and desktop? Maby an emergency button could sit in the top left corner.
I will try to get a design working in unity/lomiri in the meantime.

Yes, of course!!!

[aarontheissueguy]

@purplevvay

Ive been doing some tinkering and start to understand how things work in Lomiri. I was able to tweak some things to get dark mode.
(configured manually)

[aarontheissueguy]

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[kugiigi]

One problem I think is that Lomiri's internal code is using Suru Dark theme all the time, so using the themed palettes in the code won't be dynamic. Also, the keyboard is a separate component we can't rely the theming from it. So maybe, the design should be neutral to light and dark theme.

[aarontheissueguy]

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[aarontheissueguy]

@kugiigi Exactly, thats why I highlighted that this was configured manually and is only the result testing only. How can we reliably tell which theme a user is using?

[kugiigi]

@aarontheissueguy Yes, I understand. Just saying some things to consider
There's really no official way of setting the theme. That is yet to be implemented. But all the theme switcher apps on the store uses the config file ~/.config/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/theme.ini.
It's specifically for the Ubuntu UI toolkit so only apps that uses it are affected (qqc2 Suru theme is also affected because it also checks this config file). And currently this theme settings isn't used by the keyboard so system and the keyboard may also have different theme which may break the overall design if it relies on theme settings.

[aarontheissueguy]

@kugiigi Ok I see thank you , We should focus on light theme than as long as the theming isn't officially supported properly. I also thought about programming an App that allows users to tweak lomiri to get more customization out of it I might resort to this if we cant get something merged with master.

[purplevvay]

Ive been doing some tinkering and start to understand how things work in Lomiri. I was able to tweak some things to get dark mode.
(configured manually)

Great! Respect.

So maybe, the design should be neutral to light and dark theme.

That's what I tried:

Swiping is still the best for emergency (I think).
Will make a vertical one too soon.

[Keneda]

@kugiigi said in Login screen/Code input Design:

One problem I think is that Lomiri's internal code is using Suru Dark theme all the time, so using the themed palettes in the code won't be dynamic. Also, the keyboard is a separate component we can't rely the theming from it. So maybe, the design should be neutral to light and dark theme.

But as you can see in my previous post :

On the login screen some parts are not affected by suru dark theme.

[purplevvay]

@kugiigi said in Login screen/Code input Design:

But all the theme switcher apps on the store uses the config file ~/.config/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/theme.ini

Is there a way to create a passphrase/pin bar using the elements that support theming?

like this:

Also I edited a little bit the horizontal view:

[mateo_salta]

oh, that is looking nice

[mateo_salta]

@aarontheissueguy here was the start - https://github.com/ubports/unity8/pull/314

just started with removing the background to let keyboard transparency work, and removing the hard-coded theme - unfortunately the theme is hard-coded to dark at a lower level for lomiri - then hard-coded back to light for notifications and lockscreen... so we would have to undo dark theme for the whole shell, and then retheme?

[aarontheissueguy]

so we would have to undo dark theme for the whole shell, and then retheme?

@mateo_salta If I understood what you say correctly, that would require work in unity as a whole and not just the Greeter part, right? Id rather try to make the Login neutral to theming, I think the mockups @purplevvay made would work well in both scenarios.

Anything else would probably result in even more work which requires better understanding of the source code and a person who actually is able to do the described things. (pls correct me if I misunderstood something here)

here was the start - https://github.com/ubports/unity8/pull/314

Thanks I will take a look at what you did later. It seems similar to the things I tried in last days at a first glance.

[mateo_salta]

@aarontheissueguy yeah, just means we leave it on the light theme for now

[purplevvay]

Glad to hear that my mockups are useful

So now we should write a qml version of the mockups and submit it, or open a new topic about feature requests, shouldn't we?

But later, I guess right now everyone is focused on preparing ut for focal.

[aarontheissueguy]

@purplevvay

So now we should write a qml version of the mockups and submit it

That would be optimal, but we will probably need some help to do this.

or open a new topic about feature requests, shouldn't we?

I would open an issue on github with a detailed request and mockups

I will continue to work on the QML side but that will take some time and much work for me. If someone with QML knowledge wants to help me that would be great.