On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2012 18:49:12 Shaun Reich wrote: >> i'm not knowledgeable in the OGL department, or the plasma::wallpaper >> area...but I thought it'd be kind of nice to tinker around with making >> absurdly useless but awesome wallpapers, and maybe learn a bit of OGL >> in the process. > there was recently a thread about OGL wallpapers where I stated my opinion on > it. >> >> problem is, isn't there an issue with using opengl on >> plasma::wallpapers? because you end up having to render it to an >> image, then use QPainter to display it, right? > yes >> >> is there a good way around that? > no :-) > > A possible solution might be to take advantage of KWin. Consider Plasma not > rendering a wallpaper at all and KWin knowing about it. In that case we could > have a special effect rendering the wallpaper. We already have functionality > to render the background black if it becomes visible. This would just needed > to be extended. But it would make mouse interaction and stuff like that > impossible. > > Cheers > Martin
This may be a bad idea, but would it be possible to have a fully transparent plasma wallpaper, then render something behind that using kwin? The transparent wallpaper could capture mouse and keyboard interaction, but would not be visible. -Todd _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
