lol.

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@49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud what, specifically, is it looking to accomplish with per-window shaders? is there a particular effect it wants to achieve? or just to play around with the capability?

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@sodiboo transparency everywhere. it is a sucker for some good blur and the easiest way to get it to work consistently is a shader that does a bit of chroma-keying

it works pretty darn well on h*pr with a custom shader; it eats a bit of gpu but not noticeably

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@49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud ooh! window transparency and blur is really cool yes.

currently, no, niri does not support this kind of thing. closest one can get is just regular transparency without any blur.

but, there is a new background effect protocol, and once that is implemented in niri, it will have the capability to do, well, background effects! such as blur!

and then, perhaps not right away, it can even be generalized to support custom shader background effects as a window rule? idk I'm not totally familiar with graphics code but like this sounds plausible methinks.

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@sodiboo wait does niri not support background blur already?

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@49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud no. unfortunately not. no blur effects anywhere.

(but it is now a standardized Wayland protocol, so if someone wants to add background blur it should be fairly straightforward to implement that protocol probably)

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@sodiboo .. ok how hard would it be to hack shaders into niri

olivia, :neofox_flag_sapphic: :neofox_flag_trans:

@49016 @sodiboo there's shaders for other purposes (animations and stuff)

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@oli @sodiboo ok so would it be possible to just add a, well, idle animation to windows

olivia, :neofox_flag_sapphic: :neofox_flag_trans:

@49016 @sodiboo i don't see why it wouldn't be possible

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@49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud honestly no idea. I've only barely touched the rendering code and I'm not very familiar with EGL.

but COSMIC has an implementation of background blur that's... in the works I think? a PR? maybe it was merged? should be a decent thing to work from since both use the same rendering primitives from Smithay.

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@49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud did I hallucinate a cosmic-comp PR why can't I find it

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@49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud oh maybe this is the one I saw. https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/pull/1758

even better then, Smithay itself implementing it generally would be even easier to implement in nori than ripping it out of another compositor.

but it's not finished and still marked draft so I have no idea what it's like to use at this state; I haven't looked at it closely

olivia, :neofox_flag_sapphic: :neofox_flag_trans:

@sodiboo @49016 i'm not sure there was

i do know that nferhat implemented blur in fht-compositor and then visualglitch91 ported it to a pr for niri

github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1634

olivia, :neofox_flag_sapphic: :neofox_flag_trans:

@sodiboo @49016 i wouldn't have guessed the protocol name

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