[Konsole-devel] [Bug 198175] Konsole should set blur region for the new kwin effect

[Eike Hein]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198175

--- Comment #36 from Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> ---
> 1. I meant that there will not be any blur settings in each app, you just need to setup the blur region for the whole yakuake window.

Setting the blur region for the entire window makes it impossible to have
blurring for some terminal profiles but not for others, which isn't optimal
(see the aforementioned scenario where you usually want to blur except when you
don't).

> Also no need to add any configuration controlls to yakuake to change blur settings.

Sure you do, so users can disable blur if they want to. This is particularly
needed for Yakuake because it's designed to be above other things, so an option
to single it out is needed by some and just disabling the effect plugin
wouldn't do (also I'm privy to plans/desires by the kwin developers to possibly
remove helper effects like this from the user-visible effect list).


> 2. Add single option to KPart Konsole plugin to supress blur under its area, and that's it.

This isn't an improvement over the plan I laid out because suppressing blur
requires exactly as much work (or more) as possible, and given that there is no
gain to be had on the code complexity side, it makes for a hell of an ugly and
scary option for non-technical reasons. A "Blur the terminal background"
checkbox is a lot more straightforward than having a scary and
destructive-sounding verb like "suppress" in there which makes users afraid to
use it (do I want that? what will happen if I use it? etc). Friendlyness
matters :).

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