Background for login, splash, and lockscreen

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

Well, imho the wallpaper on the lockscreen should be the one the user has chosen for his/her desktop, and there we cannot influence that. Even if the lockscreen wallpaper is configurable we don't have influence on its appearance either.

Was just a thought, there may be a dozen of reasons not to do as I proposed ;)

Cheers,
Kai Uwe

Am 22.06.2014 20:57 schrieb Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>:
>
> On Saturday 21 June 2014 16:18:10 Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: 
> > 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 :-) 
>
> so you suggest that on millions of devices we blur the window fullscreen every 
> time the user logs in (lots of more important stuff to do) and locks the 
> screen? Compared to preparing it once and just installing it? That sounds like 
> a very bad memory-time tradeoff [1]. 
>
> Cheers 
> Martin 
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-memory_tradeoff
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