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

[Arno Rehn]

> On 2010-06-13 15:40:00, Robert Knight wrote:
> > Hello - Is there a good reason to make this optional?  If the feature is supported I think it makes sense to always use it.

I always liked the possibility of seeing what's underneath the window while I could still type in the terminal. That made it possible to have a full screen Konsole window with Konqui showing example code underneath. I don't know what others think about it, but I'd miss that feature.


- 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)
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> Review request for Konsole.
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> Summary
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> 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.
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> I know we're in hard feature freeze and string freeze. But to not have this forgotten, I'll post it here now.
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> Diffs
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>   /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 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4292/diff
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> Testing
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> Tested by switching tabs back and forth, enabling and disabling blurring again and again. No crashes so far.
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> Screenshots
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> Konsole with enabled blurring
>   http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4292/s/430/
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> Thanks,
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> Arno
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