| Summary: | Add some smoothing for window thumbnails | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | Daniel <daniel-other+kdebug> |
| Component: | effects-present-windows | Assignee: | Daniel <daniel-other+kdebug> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.20.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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A screenshot of a window in Present-Windows: Text in the window looks pixely and ugly.
output of qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation |
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That isn't how things normally look. It implies the lanczos filter was disabled, which is something that happens when we detect poor hardware. Can you confirm output of: qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation Created attachment 139518 [details]
output of qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation
The machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga 4th Generation from 2019, so it should be powerful enough ;)
>glSmoothScale: 0
aha.
Can you go to system settings -> compositor -> scale method and confirm it says "accurate"
Ah, indeed it was set to pixely. With it set to accurate, the present-window thing looks much better! |
Created attachment 135599 [details] A screenshot of a window in Present-Windows: Text in the window looks pixely and ugly. SUMMARY Currently, when using the Present-Windows function the actual windows look a bit strange, because the full resolution of the window is reduced to a very small size. This makes text look strange and "pixely". A bit of blur on the windows would make the appearance much smoother and elegant. See screenshot for an example. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Present-Windows OBSERVED RESULT The windows look "pixely" because they are scaled without blur applied. EXPECTED RESULT A little bit of blur (maybe depending on screen resolution and window size?) would make it look smoother and better.