Bug 453286 - Glowing text effect
Summary: Glowing text effect
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 21.12.3
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
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Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-05-02 08:56 UTC by tnemeth
Modified: 2024-03-23 03:38 UTC (History)
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2022-05-02 10:05 UTC, tcanabrava
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Description tnemeth 2022-05-02 08:56:21 UTC
SUMMARY
I'm a bit of a nostalgic of text terminals (the physical ones) that had remanence/afterglow on a cathode ray tube (yes I'm of the older kind of users).
As an old one, I mostly use terminal emulators. I've been using a lot of them to find the right one. When KDE was still in its infancy, I was using Eterm a lot. RXVT also. Xterm of course. Eterm has evolved into Terminology. One of the rare traits that I still like in Terminology is its afterglow effect on the cursor and fonts. It triggers my nostalgia fiber :)

Would it be possible to have that effect in konsole ?


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open konsole
2. Look at the cursor and fonts
3. Look at Konsole configuration window


OBSERVED RESULT
No afterglow effect nor afterglow configuration option.


EXPECTED RESULT
A working afterglow option :)


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.17.0-1-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-7567U CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 31.3 Gio of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics 650

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
N/A
Comment 1 tcanabrava 2022-05-02 10:05:56 UTC
Created attachment 148511 [details]
attachment-12398-0.html

Not really. It’s quite expensive to do those currently because we don’t use
opengl to paint things. We would need to rewrite the entire graphics stack
for that.


On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 10:56 <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453286
>
>             Bug ID: 453286
>            Summary: Glowing text effect
>            Product: konsole
>            Version: 21.12.3
>           Platform: Debian testing
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: REPORTED
>           Severity: wishlist
>           Priority: NOR
>          Component: general
>           Assignee: konsole-devel@kde.org
>           Reporter: tnemeth@free.fr
>   Target Milestone: ---
>
> SUMMARY
> I'm a bit of a nostalgic of text terminals (the physical ones) that had
> remanence/afterglow on a cathode ray tube (yes I'm of the older kind of
> users).
> As an old one, I mostly use terminal emulators. I've been using a lot of
> them
> to find the right one. When KDE was still in its infancy, I was using
> Eterm a
> lot. RXVT also. Xterm of course. Eterm has evolved into Terminology. One
> of the
> rare traits that I still like in Terminology is its afterglow effect on the
> cursor and fonts. It triggers my nostalgia fiber :)
>
> Would it be possible to have that effect in konsole ?
>
>
> STEPS TO REPRODUCE
> 1. Open konsole
> 2. Look at the cursor and fonts
> 3. Look at Konsole configuration window
>
>
> OBSERVED RESULT
> No afterglow effect nor afterglow configuration option.
>
>
> EXPECTED RESULT
> A working afterglow option :)
>
>
> SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
> Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
> KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
> KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
> Qt Version: 5.15.2
> Kernel Version: 5.17.0-1-amd64 (64-bit)
> Graphics Platform: X11
> Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-7567U CPU @ 3.50GHz
> Memory: 31.3 Gio of RAM
> Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics 650
>
> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
> N/A
>
> --
> You are receiving this mail because:
> You are the assignee for the bug.
Comment 2 tnemeth 2022-05-02 10:55:13 UTC
(In reply to tcanabrava from comment #1)
> Not really. It’s quite expensive to do those currently because we don’t use
> opengl to paint things. We would need to rewrite the entire graphics stack
> for that.

I was expecting a reply like that :-(

I'm a bit sad, but as a developer myself, I understand the implications of such a change...

I would say that, with an amber or green monocolor theme it would have been a great
eye candy. Not only that, but imagine a monochrome cyan text over transparent background,
it would totaly be like in SciFi films ;)

Thanks again. I've been stockpiling wish lists and decided to send some of them today : I must
say you have been quite responsive ! A real pleasure to have you as an interlocutor.