FS#70259 - [filesystem] Low contrast of the logo (archlinux.png) on white background

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by notreally (acc) - Friday, 02 April 2021, 04:57 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Friday, 12 November 2021, 20:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
The white `arch` in the logo doesn't look vivid enough with a white background.

Additional info:
The `gnome-control-center` now implements usage of os-release to search for the OS logo (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/f39cd5a93b0dcddda9911586820ed55bbbe2eb3d)


Steps to reproduce:
0. set `Adwaita` or any other light theme as GTK theme;
1. open `gnome-control-center`;
2. switch to `About` tab;
3. see the logo;
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Friday, 12 November 2021, 20:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  filesystem 2021.11.11-1
Comment by mattia (nTia89) - Sunday, 11 April 2021, 15:36 GMT
I confirm the issue; a screenshot here: https://imgur.com/a/LNYJWto

I possible solution is to add a 'shadow' for the profile of the 'arch' white part.
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 10:18 GMT
Looking at the commit you pointed there is no handling of light vs dark themes logo.
So currently logo is displayed correctly on dark gtk themes (see attachment).

I will not alter the official copyrighted arch material and I don't know if there is a way to get the logo displayed correctly in both light and dark themes.
There is another version with arch in black, which could render better on light themes so we could eventually switch to that one.


Comment by Mantas Mikulėnas (grawity) - Friday, 02 July 2021, 20:05 GMT
It seems that the *next* gnome-control-center version [1] will automatically look for FOO.png (light mode, dark text) and FOO-dark.png (dark mode, light text).

Additionally it will look for FOO-text.png and FOO-text-dark.png, so I think the intention is that os-release should point to *just an icon* (without text), while gnome-control-center can still show a version with text.

I have tried placing the two horizontal logos from archlinux.org/art as archlinux-text[-dark].png (shrunk down to 150px height) and the result looks reasonable, so I would probably suggest doing this for the next GNOME version. (The attached screenshots are with gnome-control-center Git build.)

wget https://archlinux.org/static/logos/archlinux-logo-dark-1200dpi.b42bd35d5916.png -O /usr/share/pixmaps/archlinux-text.png
wget https://archlinux.org/static/logos/archlinux-logo-light-1200dpi.7ccd81fd52dc.png -O /usr/share/pixmaps/archlinux-text-dark.png
magick mogrify -geometry x150 /usr/share/pixmaps/archlinux-text*.png

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/a3b8964a1936274dc4021455648d51edb11b520d
[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/1399
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 20:52 GMT Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 23:23 GMT
Looks great. Please move forward!
Comment by notreally (acc) - Thursday, 11 November 2021, 05:40 GMT
Thanks for the new logo set, but the logo with text is so wide that the sidebar and the main pane can't coexist in the GNOME Settings window unless resizing manually. I installed `filesystem` from the testing repository, not sure if it's specific to my computer environment.
If not, could we:
1. report to upstream and ask to automatically resize the logo to the right size. There was discussion and consideration in the upstream MR [1] [2] and issue [3] about handling logo sizes, but seems not actually handling yet.
2. reduce the logo size a bit, like the fedora/CentOS/Red Hat logs shown in this MR note [4]
3. use a vertically framed logo, i.e. like GNOME logos or the old archlinux.png, with the text below the icon

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/965#note_1055180
[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/985
[3]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/1399
[4]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/985#note_1094379


Comment by notreally (acc) - Thursday, 11 November 2021, 06:01 GMT
Sorry, a duplicate comment was added when I refreshed the page and I can't seem to delete it.

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