Background for login, splash, and lockscreen

[Jens]

Right...
Ok so if I pick a wallpaper for my "start activity" that wallpaper should be 
the wallpaper used. If a user on the other hand have created several 
activities with different set-ups and deleted the first activity then the last 
wallpaper edited should be the wallpaper used and the user can in that way 
control which it is. 
OR we can do what gnome does, essentially set it up as its own wallpaper 
picker. You pick one for login and then one for wallpaper. But that seems 
kinda redundant. 

I think adding things to the wallpaper picked might be counterproductive since 
adding options isn't really adding to usability, just complexity. 

Now I don't know how hard "proper configuration for the login screen including 
support for animated wallpapers" is to implement and make so it doesn't add to 
boot-up time, I just assumed that if it was easy it had already been done.

... and if it isn't wouldn't this serve as a better option? I mean if it 
doesn't add on boot-up time, if it isn't a massive project to create and it 
solves the issue wouldn't the method be better to have now instead of hoping 
for the the perfect solution in the future? 

(Again, to have that said, I know close to zero about this issue - so please 
take whatever that plops out of my mouth with a pinch and a bucket full of 
salt. I just thought it made sense in my brain - which may not be true in 
reality)

On Monday 23 June 2014 10.29.41 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2014 10:26:26 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On 23.06.2014 10:16, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > >>> blurred wallpaper can even be smaller in resolution (to save on space
> > >>> I
> > >>> guess) since, using gaussian blur removes all detail anyway and the
> > >>> resolution becomes almost meaningless.
> > >> 
> > >> Yes that would work and would be a good solution. There
> > > 
> > > The question is *which* wallpaper. From which activity / or which
> > > virtual
> > > desktop. I would love to see this implemented, but it will not be as
> > > trivial as this.
> > 
> > How about when selecting a wallpaper for anything, users can tick a
> > checkbox "Use this wallpaper for login", which then blurs and symlinks it?
> > Con: There would not be a smooth transition if a different wallpaper is
> > shown after login
> > Pro: The user would be in control
> 
> How about we implement proper configuration for the login screen including
> support for animated wallpapers (screen saver replacement), plasmoids and so
> on? That way we don't need to link anything from the desktop shell to the
> lock screen.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin