Bug 515284 - hover blur feature request fir weather widget
Summary: hover blur feature request fir weather widget
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Weather widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: master
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: accessibility
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2026-01-29 23:41 UTC by israel
Modified: 2026-01-30 00:33 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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2026-01-29 23:41 UTC, israel
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Description israel 2026-01-29 23:41:34 UTC
Created attachment 189045 [details]
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SUMMARY
feature erquest

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. use widget
2. have animated background GIF
3. wish mouse (hover) over would cause background of widget to blur so info becomes clear

OBSERVED RESULT

the background is either clear or blurred

EXPECTED RESULT

wish list: new config option, background blur on mouse hover

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:  no thank you
macOS:  no thank you
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.12.64-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This is a feature request.  I am not sure if Qt allows `onmouse{over|hover}` blur effects or not, but if it is possible to add another option to background to blur when a hover event happens, it would be epic.

I like having multiple widgets on my desktop to track both Fahrenheit and Celsius.  GIF backgrounds have moving images, so a mouse{over|hover} event to blur would be helpful for my niche use case, perhaps "adaptive blur" would be the name of the option, or "hover blur". maybe it is a couple lines of code and easy to implement and other users decide it is awesome, maybe it is hard and not worth the trouble.  not sure how many have configured their desktop like mine, we are all quite niche tbh.

i haven't used the Qt toolkit to program in a long time so I don't know what kind of patch I could make.

if it is simple (or a fun puzzle to solve) please implement my request, if not, I completely understand.  if I end up caring so much I will find the source code and force it to do what I want or be lazy and thankful you made a widget that mostly does what I want

added screencast to show how it is hard to see sometimes and easy others...