Guido Günther

With a bit of #blur in #phoc we can have more vivid backgrounds while text still remains easy to read. As this happens on the compositor side there's basically no performance impact (but we rely on two small, not yet merged wlroots patches). This is mostly groundwork for more things to come.

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Apr 24 at 10:08amWeb
Show threadBjörn   🇪🇺Apr 24
@agx Nice background image ;)
Show threadqkallApr 24
@agx heck yeah, nioce!
Show threadniveaApr 25
@agx is it also conceivable to blend the high contrast theme to regular and back based on the ambient light? that might help a lot to make this feature more practical, i reckon.
Show threadGuido GüntherApr 25
@nivea Sorry for being dense here but can you help me understand the relation between automatic HC theme switching based on ambient (which is already there) and background blur?
Show threadniveaApr 25
@agx my apologies, guido, for not being clearer. the relation is associative to a fair degree, honestly. but the hard switching between those modes and the delay caused by redrawing the display is less than ideal, even with the best filtering of the ambient light signal. that sparked the thought whether it were feasible to gradually blend one mode into the other depending on a low-pass filtered sensor signal.
Show threadGuido GüntherApr 26
@nivea It wont help much as the restyle depends on apps picking up the theme changes, not the compositor drawing them differently so our best bets are currently: reduce number of transitions, speed up the transition itself. Where it can help is e.g. a grescale mode. That's compositor driven and we can blend into that.