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In D11308#225401 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D11308#225401>, @mart wrote: > Sadly, the current design doesn't really allow for arbitrary wallpapers (and since is possible already to put any image, that's quite a problem) > if a wallpaper should become the default again, the text elements should either have a visible background for contrast (so would mean a pretty heavy redesign) or, showing only the wallpaper by default and only after mouse move/any interaction the actual controls appear and the wallpaper gets either completely covered or with an heavy blur+contrast (blur alone isn't enough to ensure readability of text, the shader should modify the colors as well, like the plasma panel does) I agree with you, raw images will make everything worse so background should be somehow filtered. IMO, blur+contrast is a good idea. Do we really need to use shaders? QML some useful effects like FastBlur and BrightnessContrast. REPOSITORY R133 KScreenLocker REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D11308 To: ngraham, #plasma, #vdg, graesslin Cc: zzag, Pitel, progwolff, abetts, hein, mart, graesslin, plasma-devel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, sebas, apol