[konsole] [Bug 453286] New: Glowing text effect

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Not really. It’s quite expensive to do those currently because we don’t use
opengl to paint things. We would need to rewrite the entire graphics stack
for that.


On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 10:56 <bugzilla_noreply at kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453286
>
>             Bug ID: 453286
>            Summary: Glowing text effect
>            Product: konsole
>            Version: 21.12.3
>           Platform: Debian testing
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: REPORTED
>           Severity: wishlist
>           Priority: NOR
>          Component: general
>           Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
>           Reporter: tnemeth at free.fr
>   Target Milestone: ---
>
> SUMMARY
> I'm a bit of a nostalgic of text terminals (the physical ones) that had
> remanence/afterglow on a cathode ray tube (yes I'm of the older kind of
> users).
> As an old one, I mostly use terminal emulators. I've been using a lot of
> them
> to find the right one. When KDE was still in its infancy, I was using
> Eterm a
> lot. RXVT also. Xterm of course. Eterm has evolved into Terminology. One
> of the
> rare traits that I still like in Terminology is its afterglow effect on the
> cursor and fonts. It triggers my nostalgia fiber :)
>
> Would it be possible to have that effect in konsole ?
>
>
> STEPS TO REPRODUCE
> 1. Open konsole
> 2. Look at the cursor and fonts
> 3. Look at Konsole configuration window
>
>
> OBSERVED RESULT
> No afterglow effect nor afterglow configuration option.
>
>
> EXPECTED RESULT
> A working afterglow option :)
>
>
> SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
> Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
> KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
> KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
> Qt Version: 5.15.2
> Kernel Version: 5.17.0-1-amd64 (64-bit)
> Graphics Platform: X11
> Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-7567U CPU @ 3.50GHz
> Memory: 31.3 Gio of RAM
> Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics 650
>
> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
> N/A
>
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