[Konsole-devel] Review Request: Add option to blur transparent background (utilizing KWin's new blur support).

Arno Rehn kde at arnorehn.de
Thu Jul 1 09:33:38 UTC 2010



> On 2010-06-29 04:07:19, Kurt Hindenburg wrote:
> > BUG 198175 - Fredrikh sent me a patch that enables the Blur w/o an option.  Did we decide if want an option to turn this off?
> > 
> > 
> > Index: MainWindow.cpp
> > ===================================================================
> > --- MainWindow.cpp	(revision 1143496)
> > +++ MainWindow.cpp	(working copy)
> > @@ -57,6 +57,12 @@
> >  #include "ViewManager.h"
> >  #include "ViewSplitter.h"
> >  
> > +#ifdef Q_WS_X11
> > +#include <QX11Info>
> > +#include <X11/Xlib.h>
> > +#include <X11/Xatom.h>
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  using namespace Konsole;
> >  
> >  static bool useTransparency()
> > @@ -76,6 +82,12 @@
> >      if (useTransparency()) {
> >          setAttribute(Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground);
> >          setAttribute(Qt::WA_NoSystemBackground, false);
> > +#ifdef Q_WS_X11
> > +        Atom net_wm_blur_region = XInternAtom(QX11Info::display(), "_KDE_NET_WM_BLUR_BEHIND_REGION", False);
> > +        unsigned long region[] = { 0 };
> > +        XChangeProperty(QX11Info::display(), winId(), net_wm_blur_region, XA_CARDINAL, 32, PropModeReplace,
> > +                        reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(&region), 1);
> > +#endif
> >      }
> >  
> >      // create actions for menus
> > 
> >
> 
> Kurt Hindenburg wrote:
>     I don't have a system that Blur works so I can't verify it works.

There hasn't been a decision yet on whether it should be configurable or not. I'd still go for a configuration option - it would eliminate a possible use-case of konsole's transparency otherwise I think.
What do the other Konsole people think then?


- Arno


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On 2010-06-13 13:57:43, Arno Rehn wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-06-13 13:57:43)
> 
> 
> Review request for Konsole.
> 
> 
> Summary
> -------
> 
> This patch adds an option to Konsole's color scheme editor to enable blurring on transparent backgrounds. It makes use of the new _KDE_NET_WM_BLUR_BEHIND_REGION Atom recognized by KWin.
> When tabs are switched it checks whether the color scheme of the new tab has blurring enabled and enables or disables blurring accordingly.
> 
> I know we're in hard feature freeze and string freeze. But to not have this forgotten, I'll post it here now.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/ColorScheme.h 1137325 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/ColorScheme.cpp 1137325 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/ColorSchemeEditor.h 1137325 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/ColorSchemeEditor.cpp 1137325 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/ColorSchemeEditor.ui 1137325 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/TerminalDisplay.h 1137325 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/TerminalDisplay.cpp 1137325 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/ViewManager.cpp 1137325 
> 
> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4292/diff
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Tested by switching tabs back and forth, enabling and disabling blurring again and again. No crashes so far.
> 
> 
> Screenshots
> -----------
> 
> Konsole with enabled blurring
>   http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4292/s/430/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arno
> 
>

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