[PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Another patch, after an idea by MohammadAG - removes the blurring and instead amplifies the desaturation. I'll leave it to others to clean up the patch and merge it into MHD or any of the builds that are floating around ;)

Get it here: "noblur" Patch against hildon-desktop_2.2.140-1+0m5

If you do not fear scratchbox, just:

http://thp.io/2011/maemo/hildon_desk...ur_appmenu.png

http://thp.io/2011/maemo/hildon_desk...ur_desktop.png

http://thp.io/2011/maemo/hildon_desk...ur_dialogs.png

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

hmmm. cool. but why?

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

is it faster?

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

can you do this on N900?

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Why not? It makes it easier to see what's behind the current popup, so when you go back, you can already target the next UI item (unscientific, non-evaluated guess). It also looks better IMHO, but you are free not to use it.

Yes, because there is no need to blur iteratively multiple times (which is how the blur is implemented AFAICT).

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

THANKS!

I didn't expect you'd get this working in less than a day!
Again, thanks a heap!

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

a bit confused
how is this different from editing transitions.ini, disabling the blur and making the saturation zero?

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Disabling blur overrides 0 saturation, try it yourself, you'll see the background as it is, this patch makes it more ala Symbian^3 or MeeGo, a bit more resource friendly.

Oh and here's a deb with this applied on top of http://gitorious.org/community-ssu/hildon-desktop

http://mohammadag.xceleo.org/public/...rize_armel.deb

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Question: do those sources (or Mohammad's preopackaged deb) include the thing that enables portrait-mode status-menu opening (the hildon-desktop part, obviously, not the hildon-status-menu part)? Because that's far more valuable to me than this. (Or, indeed, than the entire SSU, probably - in that I would wait until I could figure out how to readd portrait mode status menu opening before bothering to upgrade to community SSU.)

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

WOW thanks! And you included faster menu scrolling :D:D Huge thanks to both of you! :)

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Ah, okay, thank you

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Hello guys.

A stupid question.

i get an error on application manager while trying to install it.

"unable to update hildon-desktop
incompatible application package"

Any solution?

Thanks

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Suggestion: Can you make it a tunable variable via transition.ini?

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Yes, it supports portrait hildon-status-area. Patches applied to the SSU are done so on top of the existing modified code base, unless they conflict. You should be getting all of the previous modifications plus added ones - the filenames on MAG's hosting denote the applied patch.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Thanks, that's nice, especially if it's saving some resources. I'm not seeing much of a difference in speed when the n900 is idled but I can imagine that there will be a greater difference when the CPU and GPU are under stress.

But would it be possible to make the background just way darker, instead of making it monochrome. Grey doesn't fit some themes like Okuda very well.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

same problem here.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

SuperBadass.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

you need to use the dpkg -i cmd in xterm (rooted)

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Wow, that looks now way better than the standart blur. Thanks for this patch I absolutely love it :) Works good with the Array-Theme.
Thanks as well for MohammadAG for making a .deb out of it :)

Making the N900 always one bit better :) You guys rock!

Cheers,

mikki-kun

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Doesn't work properly. It does install the drop-down menu for portrait (Status) but it's glitched. It only opens and then immediately closes, no functions to use. This only happens in portrait (and if portrait control-panel was also supposed to be here, it's not).

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Did you install the patched hildon-status-menu?
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66586
Skip the desktop steps; i.e:
Control panel is not related to the desktop.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Nope, just the one in this thread. I'm installing it now. I'll edit this post once I've done it.

Alright, done it, seems to work fine. I've got the 6-line long portrait-status now, thanks.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

MohammadAG/thp a very nice mod. It's very unintelligent to force the n900 to work at blurring the background making it virtually impossible to make out details on anything but the selected window. I wonder would it be possible to have the selected window have a lesser opacity 0.7? Providing the possibility to see possibly vital information below the in focus window?

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

You can edit /usr/share/hildon-desktop/transitions.ini, the part that has radius and radius_more is what you want.
Change those 2 to 1, and play with brightness and saturation.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Hey Mohammed!

Im a bit stumped to get this working with your previous hildon patch, the one with Kinetic scrolling + Matans desktop!

The deb you stuck on here doesnt wanna overwrite schemas and dpkg isnt liking it! Just errors encountered message! Whats am i doing wrong?

P.s. is there any way i can get portrait status bar working aswell without losing kinetic scrolling and Matans desktop?

Thanks!

OH AND A BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG THANKS TO THP :) This seems AWESOME!!!!!

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

i will use it as its faster, thanks!
just wasnt sure if it had any uses other than looks..

also, all this needs is to be combined with single column thumbnail multitasking ! ultimate MOD then!

THANKS thp and MAG

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Can't get it working. Can't install. Says it isn't compatible. . .

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

I assume you have rootsh installed. If so, type root in X-Terminal. If not, install it from the Extras. Now type gainroot in X-Terminal. After that:

That should do it.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

I had the same, in my case it was because I already had a version of Modified Hildon-desktop with the same version number installed. After uninstalling that it worked.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Got it! Thanks rantom!

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Hello! Nice work, but just one thing - combination Ctrl + Backspace doesn't work anymore as it did before, but works the same way as it does on a computer. How do I get this function back or what is the replacement?

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Works like a charm over here! Just shows me the open apps in thumbs.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

I can confirm this, happened to me as well.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Thanks this worked for me

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

You set it yourself in gconf, maybe a long time ago.
Read this: http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/repo/Mo...n_Desktop.html

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Well, I didn't set it my self. Maybe some of packages did so for me... But thanks, managed to enable the combination back!

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

Keep in mind some of us still run the hildon desktop that doesn't use all the fancy keyboard shortcut configurations that Matan added.

So isn't it possible his got set for him upon install, or something?

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

I know, I don't run anything funny in postinst that would set them.

Re: [PATCH] Desaturate instead of blur (hildon-desktop)
 

here my output

/home/user # dpkg -i hildon-desktop_2.2.140-1+0m5_desaturize_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 43221 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hildon-desktop 1:2.2.140-1+0m5 (using hildon-desktop_2.2.140-1+0m5_desaturize_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement hildon-desktop ...
dpkg: error processing hildon-desktop_2.2.140-1+0m5_desaturize_armel.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/gconf/schemas/hildon-desktop-keys.schemas', which is also in package modified-hildon-desktop
Errors were encountered while processing:
hildon-desktop_2.2.140-1+0m5_desaturize_armel.deb

any idea how to fix ?

many thans . moepda

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