Background for login, splash, and lockscreen

[Andrew Lake]

This blurred, dimmed version of the default wallpaper has been committed
for use by the login, splash and lockscreen.

Much respect,
Andrew


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Kai Uwe Broulik <kde at privat.broulik.de>
wrote:

> 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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