Summary:
The new logout design doesn't want to have the vignetting. Thus the
logout effect itself doesn't make any sense any more. All that would
still be used is the logout blur which can also be provided by the
blur effect nowadays for fullscreen windows. As the new logout is a
fullscreen window it should use that one.
The logout effect did one more thing: it kept the vignetting and the
blur once the user selected logout. Now without the vignetting this
would be weird and again doesn't make much sense any more.
So overall I think it's better to just drop the logout effect and use
blur effect in normal way. Neat side advantage: it will also work on
Wayland out-of-the-box.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma, #vdg
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2553
The logout effect was rather broken. First of all it was
excluded from build if OpenGL ES is present at build time. The
reason for this is that the effect did not work with GLES.
In order to fix that the vignetting is ported over to OpenGL 2
by using a dedicated shader. As well the lod based blur is
added through a dedicated shader and uses framebuffer blit to
get the current rendered buffer before rendering the logout
window into a texture.
Last but not least the isActive method was broken and is fixed
by checking whether the logout window is around.
BUG: 303096
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
REVIEW: 105459
