> On 2010-06-03 18:21:32, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > Just a note: this makes it impossible to look at the windows below > > dashboard. That might sound like a strange usecase, but I use it. > > > > I would much rather like to see a dashboard effect in KWin which does the > > right thing (TM) for dashboard. For the dashboard we could use a blur > > kernel which is better suited. In case of dashboard we know that it is the > > top most window and we can do things as we do in logout effect. > > Andreas Demmer wrote: > I discussed this with Martin in IRC a few minutes ago. I will come up > with a tuned version of this. > > Ryan Rix wrote: > I have use for this as well... (copying to a Notes plasmoid on my > dashboard based on the window below, etc) > > More specifically, I think it would be nice if this were its own KWin > effect with a configuration dialog allowing the user to control the strength > of the blur and the alpha used in the background as well. I sometimes find it > difficult to read low contrast items with the current QColor(0,0,0,180) that > is used as the background, and have wanted more than once to make it more > transparent. Of course, that may be outside the scope of a kwin effect > plugin. ;)
I redraw this patch as I started working on a KWin plugin for the dashboard, where you can switch blur on/off, select the translucency and the background color. - Andreas ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4218/#review5972 ----------------------------------------------------------- On 2010-06-03 18:03:29, Andreas Demmer wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4218/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated 2010-06-03 18:03:29) > > > Review request for Plasma. > > > Summary > ------- > > This patch adds blur to the dashboard background if compositing is enabled. > > > Diffs > ----- > > trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/shell/dashboardview.h 1133903 > trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/shell/dashboardview.cpp 1133903 > > Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4218/diff > > > Testing > ------- > > Compiled, installed and opened dashboard: Blur works with KWin blur effect > enabled. Normal semi-translucent background if the KWin blur plugin is not > enabled. No change to the default behaviour without compositing (show > wallpaper). > > > Screenshots > ----------- > > blurred dashboard > http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4218/s/417/ > > > Thanks, > > Andreas > > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
