Review Request 108438: Use translucent/dialogs/background elements where possible

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This review has been submitted with commit 0be3da58b8a219e458cc0c80027f3bf7f0421ee5 by Martin Gräßlin to branch KDE/4.10.

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On Jan. 30, 2013, 1:28 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 30, 2013, 1:28 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin, Plasma, Sebastian Kügler, and Xuetian Weng.
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> Description
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> Use translucent/dialogs/background elements where possible
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> In effects it's obvious that compositing is enabled, so specifying the
> translucent element is no problem.
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> In tabbox a context property "compositing" is injected which decides
> whether "translucent" or "opaque" elements should be used. Here the
> translucent elements are only used if the Blur effect is available - for
> this a new Effect::Feature Blur is introduced and in addition it is
> tested whether the theme provides the translucent element.
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> Also the masking is adjusted to ensure that only the shadow is not
> blurred.
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> Reason for this change is that Plasma theme seems not always to pick up
> whether compositing is used when used from inside KWin. It does not cover
> the Desktop Change OSD which uses PlasmaCore.Dialog and there we cannot
> (yet) inject that we use compositing.
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> Overall I'm quite unhappy with this patch and I do hope we can fix it in
> the proper place in the lifetime of 4.10 and revert this patch.
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> CCBUG: 311995
> REVIEW: 108438
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> Diffs
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>   kwin/effects/blur/blur.h a3820856a8db49b805ddbb2a319b8f7609dcba81 
>   kwin/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrid.cpp 53532ccff72d2a1f303265a898fd7b1fc7ea35a6 
>   kwin/effects/presentwindows/presentwindows.cpp ff53aefea1b2722aea7f6c47b345c6d78e855339 
>   kwin/libkwineffects/kwineffects.h 6aea85d20772a8a69855b81ef687b91dc93b98ac 
>   kwin/tabbox/declarative.cpp b4d615178a0e0b8b633626a1813dfa7065515b97 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/CMakeLists.txt bda7d8b95ed3b4fb4093c9960f940a0d678710f8 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/ShadowedSvgItem.qml 87de733bf0fa1ad19d4d9203de6c6fc3548ff57f 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/clients/big_icons/contents/ui/main.qml 4a3666d2befe0010f7d9b7d4414853e8c92a92a1 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/clients/compact/contents/ui/main.qml 2bf04a50cfc8540efbc86d64bf1f6de28e63d230 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/clients/informative/contents/ui/main.qml 5e3f9a6f2ad76e7eeb7ee1e51d42e0c891b762ec 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/clients/present_windows/contents/ui/main.qml e539c8970acff701b92bdaaf816a40ccba94e4b8 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/clients/small_icons/contents/ui/main.qml 0c9b4f7f7df52f8a629d0c847185db38aa9f2c26 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/clients/text/contents/ui/main.qml ccae17d96b231269a7d8ec0ecc20b0ee69453d09 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/clients/thumbnails/contents/ui/main.qml 4c33703d54c84fd54da94f821234e4cbd9c1c001 
>   kwin/tabbox/qml/desktop.qml e8203b6004a321fcc5ae6d10347fdbb7144662a7 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108438/diff/
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> Testing
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> * XRender -> opaque element
> * OpenGL with blur -> translucent element
> * non-default theme -> normal element
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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