Replace "different user" icon on SDDM login screen to match icon used on
unlock screen. Original icon was system-search, now changed to system-switch-user.
BUG: 392830
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Replace "different user" icon on SDDM login screen to match icon used on
unlock screen. Original icon was system-search, now changed to system-switch-user.
BUG: 392830
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I think I understand why the icons are currently different: because the functionalities are different! In the lock screen, clicking on that button/icon switches to another visible user. In the Login screen, it lets you find other users not listed there to log in as.
However, the the distinction is basically academic in the average user's mind, and the objective of both is to log in as a different user from the one that's been presented to you. Furthermore, the lock screen icon honestly does seem to fit both use cases, if you consider that each one is a subtle variation of "log in as some other user".
Therefore thumbs up from me. Let's let Plasma folks weigh in too, and especially @davidedmundson, who's the guardian of the SDDM theme.
With all due respect to the designers, I never made that connection.
I know the one you selected is named system-switch-users, but there's also this one, named system-users:
It doesn't have the arrow (which connotes action), but it clearly demonstrates "multiple people", another valid metaphor.
It's simple enough to change if the reviewers like it better.