mart added a comment.
That's a way i would like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOsclMNpK3M (quick and dirty so the interaction and effects are very buggy) have the lockscreen by default to be a slideshow of the default installed wallpapers and show only the clock (in this mode the text has a shadow as it might be invisible) then at the minimum interaction (mouse, keyboard, anything) the rest of the ui appears and it becomes functional (after a timeout would go back to slideshow mode) when in ui mode, either fades to a plain color (to look like the current blue default which i like a lot) or some effect like heavy blur (but still with coloring, again for readability reasons) REPOSITORY R133 KScreenLocker REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D11308 To: ngraham, #plasma, #vdg, graesslin, abetts Cc: zzag, Pitel, progwolff, abetts, hein, mart, graesslin, plasma-devel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, sebas, apol