Bug 355811

Summary: Use same custom wallpaper on lockscreen as on desktop
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli <tiposchi>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: bshah, mklapetek, nate, notuxius, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2015-11-23 22:37:34 UTC 
I would like the wallpaper to be unified.

currently the loading screen has a background image that is the same as the default wallpaper. However after I change the wallpaper the transition doesn't look smooth at all. So I would like the loading screen to just use whatever wallpaper will be there after.

Same applies for the lock screen. There the background image can be configured, but it's a separate option, while it could by default just take the wallpaper image.



Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2015-11-24 18:07:32 UTC 
>Same applies for the lock screen. There the background image can be configured, but it's a separate option, while it could by default just take the wallpaper image.

It can't really. 
Background pictures in plasma aren't necessarily an image. Also you have one per screen per activity, so it gets a lot more complex.
Comment 2 Martin Klapetek 2015-11-26 18:27:20 UTC 
It /could/ work if there is simply a live blur window put over the whole current desktop.

Although performance-wise, that would probably be crazy.

Anywho, I think it can still work. For image wallpapers - take the current image and blur it, perhaps when the computer is idle, in the worst case once the lockscreen is invoked. For any other wallpaper types, use the default image.

But, as this was discussed many times already, people have privacy concern, imho not entirely valid as proven by Harald at akademy, so would have to be optional with default=off.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2017-10-16 04:05:06 UTC 
Could we make them consistent for only the common case? E.g. one physical screen, one activity, static image used for the desktop background. That wouldn't hit all use cases, but I'm willing to bet that a darn high percentage of our users have such a setup.
Comment 4 Alexander Mentyu 2017-11-21 10:14:55 UTC 
related/duplicate? - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383670
Comment 5 David Edmundson 2017-11-21 10:43:45 UTC 
>related
Same end result at least.

>Could we make them consistent for only the common case?

Yes, but then we're just doing arbitrary inconsistent magic behaviour. 
If something can't done properly, we shouldn't do it at all.