Comments on: Delicious Transblurency [1]

By: Aaron Seigo

Aaron Seigo — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:06:52 +0000

There code in the blog comes directly from libplasma, in fact. So you can also link to libplasma and use:

Plasma::WindowEffects::enableBlurBehindWindow(WId window, bool enable = true, const QRegion ®ion = QRegion());

instead of providing your own implementation. You also get access to other such features as they become available and the code is maintained for you.

@Kurtins: those are some of the new icons for the system tray icons that will appear in KDE SC 4.5

By: Kurtins

Kurtins — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:02:24 +0000

Hey, are those in the screenshot new volume and network system tray icons or just an icon pack you’ve installed?

By: yiunix

yiunix — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:20:45 +0000

ciao enrico…

sai per caso se il plugin blur funzioa anche sotto intel con il nuovo driver mesa 7.8.1?

nel driver sono presenti sia l estensione framebuffer-object che pixel-buffer object…

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:48:22 +0000

“direct the user to relevant information or to help him through a step-by-step process”

i never thought of this aspect of blurring, but you are damn right!

Unfortunately, stuff like making windows transparent as in your example (or like the most popular burr effect – the one in vista) does is eye-candy at the cost of usability. It distracts the user from the relevant info instead of helping him to focus.

We should use the new effect for inactive windows, inactive buttons, or things like plasma popups to make a sensible use of it. As blurred things appear to be further away, we could even blur the wallpaper and plasma when a window is focused or apply different degrees of blurring to windows dependent on their importance.