Bug 313575

Summary:	Picture Frame widget displays a very blury picture
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Grzegorz Andruszkiewicz <gandrusz>
Component:	widget-frame	Assignee:	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	danuthaiduc, mr
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.8.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	left: image as it should appear. Right: Picture Frame plasmoid is blurry and color shifted Good top and bad bottom.

Description Grzegorz Andruszkiewicz 2013-01-20 16:08:55 UTC

I added my favourite weather forecast picture to the Picture Frame widget:
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/London/meteogram.png

but it is displayed in a really blury way. I tried resizing the size of the
widget, but there was no improvement. I think there should be an option to
adjust the size of the widget to the size of the picture and display it as-it-
is without any postprocessing, because this way it doesn't work for comic
strips, graphs, and any content with text.

I didn't know which package this thing is actually coming from.

Kind regards,
Grzegorz

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Add a picture with text or sharp lines.

Comment 1 betlogbetlog 2014-05-28 09:39:42 UTC

Created attachment 86875 [details]
left: image as it should appear. Right: Picture Frame plasmoid is blurry and color shifted

Left: image as it should appear.
Right: Picture Frame plasmoid is blurry and color shifted

Comment 2 Martin Samek 2014-12-26 23:04:36 UTC

It is very annoying bug. I can confirm this. An image of wether from yr.no is crippled by Photo Frame plasmoid.

Comment 3 Martin Samek 2014-12-26 23:06:35 UTC

Created attachment 90128 [details]
Good top and bad bottom.

You can see original version from yr.no in browser (top) and the version crippled by Photo Frame Plasmoid (bottom).

Comment 4 Danut Haiduc 2016-12-17 13:45:34 UTC

A workaround if you use a web picture: Use the "Web Browser" widget.

You can set it to auto-refresh every 2 minutes; however you get the extra interface buttons for the browser.

Comment 5 Danut Haiduc 2016-12-17 13:48:53 UTC

(In reply to Danut Haiduc from comment #4)
> A workaround if you use a web picture: Use the "Web Browser" widget.
> 
> You can set it to auto-refresh every 2 minutes; however you get the extra
> interface buttons for the browser.

You can also use it on a single local picture, by copying its file path as a URL in the browser.

But I guess it's not possible to have presentation mode (short of writing a web app that cycles through the pictures :) )

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 18:40:51 UTC

Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug has already been resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham