#70 Blur in dialog transparency

[beojan]

Can you add the ability to blur the background when using semi-transparent dialogs and menus. With moderate to strong transparency, it is difficult to read the dialog without blurring.

[Thomas Luebking]

For menus this certainly makes sense, but dialogs get a global opacity - blurring won't help with readability since the text etc. becomes translucent as well (so the idea is moderate translucency)
You could try:
xprop -f _KDE_NET_WM_BLUR_BEHIND_REGION 32c -set _KDE_NET_WM_BLUR_BEHIND_REGION 0
click the dialog and check the result.

[beojan]

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Accidental double post

[beojan]

I see the issue. It's probably best if I don't use more than very lightly translucent menus then.

[Thomas Luebking]

Menus are actually different, since they're real ARGB with opaque text - so they should indeed benefit from blurring.
Justr for translucent modal dialogs, i doubt so (but feel free to prove me wrong - impressing scrot or so ;-)

[beojan]

On an unrelated note, there is a bug in the Bugs section that I reported at the same time as this one, that you appear not to have seen.

[Thomas Luebking]

No, I saw that.
It's known and actually not that trivial to solve.
I'll try to give it a more intense review this WE.

[Thomas Luebking]

r1716, no guarantee that this will increase reability in modal dialogs, but should help on menus.