ngraham added a comment.
I don't see the point of an "unobtrusive blur." As I said, if we make the blur less extreme (less blurry, less/no darkening), then we return to having contrast problems with light or visually busy backgrounds. We add that problem back without solving the one here (the wallpaper is obscured). REPOSITORY R120 Plasma Workspace REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D16031 To: ngraham, #vdg, #plasma, rizzitello, davidedmundson Cc: raddison, romangg, davidedmundson, rizzitello, abetts, pstefan, broulik, rikmills, filipf, rooty, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, sebas, apol, mart