Evolving Appdash

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Martin Klapetek
<martin.klapetek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:48:32 PM CET Eike Hein wrote:
>> > The VDG has offered to join in with some cool mockups to maxi-
>> > mize potential.
>>
>> it would be cool if the VDG could also look into a non-blur variant for
>> the
>> appdash. I'm still very concerned about the full screen blur as the KWin
>> effect is not designed for this [1] and with increasing screen sizes the
>> problem that KWin is not designed for this becomes more and more a
>> problem.
>>
>> Also the appdash is almost unusable without a blur effect (which for
>> example
>> happens with GLES, XRender and QPainter backends).
>
>
> How about generating blurred wallpaper at some point, storing it
> and then using that as background? Blurrin a 20MPx (5472x3648)
> image here with gaussian blur in gimp takes about 5 seconds,
> 1920x1280 then takes less than 3 seconds. I'm not sure how well
> is gimp's blurring optimized and/or gpu powered, but 3 seconds
> really doesn't sound bad for one-time generation in the background.
>
> Of course there are different activities and different wallpapers
> but still could be solved.

Well you'd still need to blur the windows under it, no?

Aleix