Chinese Painting Theme for Sddm

This repo aims at making a Chinese style theme for sddm, and it's based on sddm-deepin.

Features

• Use a part of the famous Chinese painting 清明上河图 as the default background.
• Provide indivial icons for 10+ desktop environments and window managers.

Install

Archlinux

$ yay -S sddm-chinese-painting-theme

Others

1. Install qt5-graphicaleffects package.
2. git clone https://github.com/fralonra/sddm-chinese-painting-theme.
3. cd to the theme folder and run ./install.sh.

To make the theme default for sddm, set the Current value in /etc/sddm.conf as Current=chinese-painting, or just run sudo sed -i "s/^Current=.*/Current=chinese-painting/g" /etc/sddm.conf.

Basic Configure

Edit the theme.conf file in the theme folder, or create a theme.conf.user file to override it.

• background: the background image
• timeFormat: time format, default: hh:mm (show in the top-right corner)
• dateFormat: date format, default: dddd yyyy-MM-dd (show in the top-right corner)
• frameHeight: height for power-frame and session-frame, default: 120
• buttonSpacing: space between icon buttons, default: 20
• iconSmall: size for small icons in bottom-left corner, default: 30
• iconLarge: size for large icons (useravatar, most icon buttons), default: 60
• fontMedium: size for medium fonts (except time text), default: 12
• fontBig: size for big fonts (currently only time text), default: 20
• colorText: text color, default #edededff
• colorBackgroundDark: color for dark background (background of power-frame, session-frame, current useravatar and password-input), default: #55000000

Todo

1. Easily configure via theme.conf, without editing qml files.
2. More suitable paintings for background choice.
3. Icons redesign.