plasma::wallpaper and pure opengl?

[Shaun Reich]

> A possible solution might be to take advantage of KWin. Consider Plasma not
> rendering a wallpaper at all and KWin knowing about it. In that case we could
> have a special effect rendering the wallpaper. We already have functionality
> to render the background black if it becomes visible. This would just needed
> to be extended. But it would make mouse interaction and stuff like that
> impossible.

ah, well that's the issue..i wouldn't want it to make widgets useless,
or to not allow mouse interaction with the wallpaper if need be.

-- 
Shaun Reich,
KDE Software Developer (kde.org)