Background for login, splash, and lockscreen

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

Can't we just use QtGraphicalEffects and just blur (and/or desaturate and/or darken) whatever picture the user has chosen?

The overall performance of these is great (at least on Android which is slow in any other QtQuick respect) but their instantiation takes ages, so might not be suitable for lockscreen which needs to start quickly or splash which shouldn't unnecessarily delay startup.

So, umm, while writing this I figured it's not that good of an idea as I initially thought :-)

Cheers,
Kai Uwe

Am 21.06.2014 12:45 schrieb Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>:
>
> On Saturday 21 June 2014 00:25:35 Andrew Lake wrote: 
> > Hello all, 
> > 
> > With the sharpness of the default background image in the login, splash and 
> > lockscreen, both the foreground and background appear to be in focus - 
> > causing a slightly uncomfortable lack of depth. Things seem to look better 
> > with a defocused and slightly dimmed background - the foreground appears 
> > sharp and in-focus relative to the background and the fade-to-desktop 
> > effect with the default wallpaper has the pleasant visual side effect of 
> > appearing to bring the desktop into focus. 
> > 
> > Before I could get a screenshot my local neon install kinda flaked out. So 
> > I've provided a link to the defocused and dimmed background image. I'm 
> > hoping someone can try it out locally before I commit. It replaces the 
> > background.png file in lookandfeel/contents/components/artwork and 
> > lookandfeel/contents/splash/images. 
> > 
> > (Also I'd be fine if the same thing were accomplished programmatically 
> > instead.) 
> > 
> > New background file: 
> > http://wstaw.org/m/2014/06/21/background.png 
> > 
> > Could someone try this out when you get a chance? I'll commit if there are 
> > no objections. 
>
> ok, so this goes on login, splash and lockscreen, while the normal background 
> is still in focus? 
>
> sounds good to me 
>
> btw just to be sure, this is going to be the final default background? 
> (at some point i understood it could have been this one 
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pt8ssY4qgCQ/U3oNfW1csmI/AAAAAAAAMsA/LQvL-FvMiVQ/s1600/loving+it.png= since the "desktop" default icon seems to have a 
> variant of it 
>
> -- 
> Marco Martin 
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