Search light - request collab

[icedman]

Hi, I'd like my extension to be supported by blur-my:

https://github.com/icedman/search-light

I implemented its blurring effect studying & copying your code. Recent gnome updates however broke the feature. I couldn't keep up with regular breaking changes.

Search Light has gained enough users/downloads for your consideration.

Let me know the changes I need to do to make for easier integration.

Thanks!!

[aunetx]

Hello, I looked at it and this should be very doable! Although it might take some time on my part.

I have not studied your code in detail so there is nothing definitive for the moment, but I guess that I would need in order to have a good integration:

• a signal to be listened for when the search is brought up
• one for when the search popup is hidden (that may not be needed though, because maybe only blurring it once would be enough -- and I guess the standard signals showing and hidden are fired anyway)

So I will look at it and tell you if I really need them, and I will definitely add support for your extension! Although there won't be any rounded corners as you can imagine...

Would you prefer to have static or dynamic blur? You can test the difference with panel blur in blur my shell, I guess it should be doable to add both anyway

[icedman]

Thank you for looking into this. It is the rounded corners in combination with blurred backgrounds that is currently in need of fixing in Search Light. Artifacts are shown. I was hoping you had this covered already.