Evolving Appdash

[Martin Graesslin]

On Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:52:35 PM CET Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 December 2015, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > > 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
> 
> I would really dislike that look...
> as the pasted irc conversation, a new effect that blurs a downsampled entire
> screen would be better i think ( and fast enough)

I'll investigate after the Christmas break how to expose a downsampling blur 
in the effects infrastructure. Ideally this can be achieved with zero costs in 
the rendering.

Cheers
Martin
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