zzag added a comment.
If someone(in the future, I guess) will decide to optimize the box shadow helper or get rid of fftw, here's a patch to use box blur : https://phabricator.kde.org/P187 Even though box blur may be faster(I haven't benchmarked it), I still would prefer the "true" Gaussian because it looks better to me. F5783057: box-vs-fft.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F5783057> //on the left hand side: box blur, on the right hand size: fft blur// REPOSITORY R31 Breeze REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D11198 To: zzag, #breeze, #vdg, hpereiradacosta Cc: broulik, abetts, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, sebas, apol, mart