[Kde-extra-gear] Yakuake support for new KWin blur plugin

[Andreas Demmer]

On Freitag 28 Mai 2010 17:33:29 Eike Hein wrote:
> I haven't looked into it yet (I only got 4.5beta1 with the new
> blur effect two days ago), but I'm interested in doing so.

I also got on the 4.5 train with beta1 a few days ago.

> Without having looked at it, my guess is that the problem will
> probably be that in theory it would be nice for the Konsole
> KPart to set a blur region itself so its terminals are blurred
> in all KDE apps using it instead of just Yakuake, but Yakuake's
> blur region also has to include skin elements outside the ter-
> minal area, so the two codebases might have to act in concert
> in some way as to not overwrite each other's blur regions.

As far I have learned, the application has to explicetly define the regions 
for KWin to blur. I agree this can be delegated to the KPart for the Konsole 
but I completely forgot about Yakuake allowing semitransparent GUI elements.

> We'll work on it, but it looks like it will be a KDE 4.6 thing since
> it would be a violation of feature freeze right now, sorry.

Ah, this is a pity because 4.6 is over a year ahead. :-( Any chances for a 
backport to 4.5.x as soon as trunk is open again and you successfully 
implemented this feature?

Need a helping hand? I am quite new to Qt programming but I started over some 
weeks ago with a few contributions to the new NetworkManager plasmoid.

Greets,
Andreas

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