Dash background blur

[adtac]

Hi, I'm a huge fan of Dash to Dock.

I just have one suggestion - could you add an option to blur the background (like OS X Mavericks' dock)? I like the opacity controls, just feel that blur would be a really nice feature.

Thanks

[micheleg]

Hi, it would be a fancy addition, although I personally prefer flat styles (I even disable it on the Mac I use at work). It should be technically feasible. I remember for instance this old extension using a blur effect: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/330/bolt/. But I'm not sure what are the performance implications. It would require quite a bit of work, so it's not likely I will look into it soon, but I'll put it in in my long list of things to be considered. Anybody wanting to experiment with it is welcome .

[adtac]

Hi I was just messing around trying to make this. I wrote this script to get the average color (a little lighter so that it is distinguishable (I've used 20% lighting - it's in the 1.2 factor; feel free to change it)) of the whole image:

URL=$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri | tr -d "'") && curl -s $URL | convert - -colorspace CMYK -colors 1 -depth 8 txt: | head -2 | tail -1 | awk -F "#" '{OP=1.2; printf "#%X%X%X", (strtonum("0x"substr($2, 0, 2))*OP)<255?(strtonum("0x"substr($2, 0, 2))*OP):255, (strtonum("0x"substr($2, 3, 2))*OP)<255?(strtonum("0x"substr($2, 3, 2))*OP):255, (strtonum("0x"substr($2, 5, 2))*OP)<255?(strtonum("0x"substr($2, 5, 2))*OP):255}'

Note: Requires ImageMagick and curl

This will basically spit out a color hex code based on the wallpaper you currently have. My question is where do I put this color code in your extension? Which file? It's just a color code, so should be simple, yeah?

[micheleg]

Hi, the appearance of the dash is defined in the css theme, either the main one of the few lines of the internal one that you can find in `~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/stylesheet.css``.

After that, I guess you have to somehow force a reload of the theme. I know this theme https://github.com/satya164/elegance-colors has a tool updating the theme so you might want to have a look at it.

[aviwad]

Any work on blur? I really want it! 😢

[adtac]

I don't use dash-to-dock anymore haha :D

[Sockolet]

Any chance for this feature?

[fdinardo]

Hi, First of all: Thanks. I couldn't use gnome 3 without this extension.

IMHO: blurring the dock is not only a "fancy" thing to have, but will improve the UX in my case.
I don't really like have a solid panel that is not consistent with my theme and my desktop look, so sometime, I come up to not fully read what is in the dock and what is behind it, but I understand that some people could not like it or just use a solid background that makes the dash usable.

although I personally prefer flat styles (I even disable it on the Mac I use at work)
There is an extension, that works pretty good with low blur values, that blurs the activity overview and the gnome-panel.

@micheleg : It is possible to collaborate with them and moving the responsibility of blurring the dock to that extension, like they already know with the panel.
What do you think?

[UnknownCoder56]

Ok so, is this still considered?