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aunetx / blur-my-shell

Extension that adds a blur look to different parts of the GNOME Shell, including the top panel, dash and overview
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3193/blur-my-shell/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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An option to select different background #50

Open alex285 opened 3 years ago

alex285 commented 3 years ago

Hello, would be possible to have an option to select a different background (image) for behind the workspaces and app launcher (but not on thumbnails picker)?

CorvetteCole commented 3 years ago

would you mind attaching a screenshot kind of showing what you mean? That would help make this a lot more clear to me anyways

alex285 commented 3 years ago

for example here there is a different background on overview state than the desktop state; the thumbnails background is obviously wrong though, and it should be the desktop background;

celluloid-shot0075

so on extension settings could be an option to:

  1. Use current background
  2. select different background (or set a custom color instead of default grey)
CorvetteCole commented 3 years ago

Hmmm. The desktop and overview background should be the same. I don't lead this project, so @aunetx will have to take a look at this and decide whether it is a good idea for this extension

difrkaguilar commented 3 years ago

This will be an awesome option!!

aunetx commented 3 years ago

This could be an interesting addition, but at the expense of a lot of complexity... We currently use the desktop wallpaper actor (which is created automatically by the shell) to create our widget, so it has the exact same dimension as what user would expect, and it must adapt to the monitor's size

I'm afraid that using another picture might mean creating a new background actor from zero, which I don't have any experience with... But I will do some tests, and in some iterations maybe integrate this!

By the way, how should we blur the top panel then? Having a different blur in overview than when normal would maybe mean that we should have an animation to fade the top panel when going in/out of overview, would it be what you expect?

CorvetteCole commented 3 years ago

I personally feel like this should not be a change we implement. It seems like a good opportunity to create your own extension to implement this change.

aunetx commented 3 years ago

I think we could work on this, but really not now... Like @CorvetteCole seemed to say, I don't think this is the goal of this extension, and this could add a lot of unnecessary settings (even though it is quite simple to either create an extension with only this goal, or even simpler by tweaking some lines in css)

aunetx commented 3 years ago

This is my very-next thing I want to implement, I think I will work on this tomorrow (after being sure that Cosmic is well supported by Blur my Shell) :)

kugelvlitz commented 11 months ago

Any update on this feature? would love to see it get included

aunetx commented 11 months ago

@kugelvlitz I'm planning on switching the background manager to the one used in gnome for the wallpaper if I find a way to do it.

If that's working, I might as well include an option to change the source wallpaper used! Although that would still be an optional feature, and it's still not officially planned as I'm not sure of the time I can dedicate to it.