https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431068
Bug ID: 431068
Summary: FR: Disabling the blur effect for non-visible parts of
the windows
Product: kwin
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: compositing
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: sepa...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
Flags: Usability+, Decision-Required+
I'm a fan of nice desktop effects like blur.But the performance of the KWin's
blur plugin is terrible.It's slow on low-end systems and consumes a lot of
power on high-end systems with high-res displays.
I know there have been a lot of optimizations and many bug fixes over the past
few years but the compositor still lacks an important feature:
If someone stacks e.g 10 transparent windows on top of each other,then KWin has
to update the background blur of all of them once a small change appears on the
screen(Even if they're not visible,e.g a completely opaque window covers some
translucent windows).
If it eliminates the transparency of non-focused windows,then the effect would
be sometimes useless(Windows10 does this,but the use of the blur effect in
Win10 is much less widespread compared to the widget themes we use in KDE like
Kvantum or QtCurve or even Aurora themes).
I'm thinking of a way to disable the blur effect for parts of the non-focused
windows which are covered,and just leave them simply transparent.This of course
doesn't need any change to the widget toolkits like Qt,but makes kwin less
resource-hungry.
What's your opinion as the KWin developers and what do you think about the
possible performance gain?
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