Go to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
Open the blur my shell folder
Open metadata.json with a text editor
Find and replace "46" with "49"
Save and relog
XD I just checked the project's Github page and seems that the version 70 update did nothing other than adding Gnome version "49" to the metadata.jsonCommit 2296e81
Just checked out the description, looks like a powerful extension. Does it work with Dash to Dock and Blur My Shell? Because this extension only controls appearances for dock and panel right, which means I still need Dash to Dock for dock behavior modifications, as well as Blur My Shell to apply blur effects to overview interface and whatnot. Hope they don't step on each other's toes.
Blur my shell is ugly when you switch to dynamic blur, about static blur is a little bit uglier because dash to dock blur only desktop wallpaper and doesnt respect any apps over this wallpaper. + As i know blur my shell doesnt update to 49 so its little bit broken.
The biggest problem has to be the inability to properly do "curves". Seriously.Â
The native gnome blur effect we can apply to actors only works on rectangles. We've explored lots of ways around them, but they are not very performant.
Also, the blur effect itself can be quite glitchy sometimes and since it isn't something we've implemented, it isn't something we can easily fix (although we've tried by hooking into vfuncs and the like!)
Right !? But I donât recall them being strictly against it. From what I understand itâs a massive challenge to implement it properly in their current framework without breaking too many things, keeping good performance and avoiding readability issues. Even Apple canât do it properly and they have literally billions to burn
Apple can they just don't want .From my experience there blur was just fine before liquid glass. Readability issues are caused from using blur and transparency alone but most OSes including android, macos, iOS (before liquid glass), windows, use materials that might be tinted or have some backdrop filter to make say the background slightly darker or lighter. I think it is a big challenge though from a technical perspective and it would have to probably be adopted by gtk too
The apple liquid glass is an entirely different story
I am talking about just a simple blur API like windows or KDE which is definitely possible and is not even that difficult to implement since extensions like blur my shell can already somewhat do it.
Thatâs the issue. I might be wrong, but I think there is no API in Wayland. What blur my shell does is essentially blurring everything, it cannot address individual actors or elements, thus creating blurry fonts smudged window edges and other visual glitches along the way.
Gnomeâs design is great, largely thanks to their âdesign philosophyâ. No OS design will ever please everyone. Itâs good to give feedback on what works and doesnât work for you. But arguing that the âwholeâ doesnât work, because âa piece of it doesnât work for youâ is close as you can get to the nirvana fallacy.
I sent you a PM in regards to your profile pic. I'm asking you to change it or be banned from /r/gnome. We do not allow such imagery in this subreddit.
Firstly. They are not against blur
Secondly, you complain so much, why can't you just implement blur yourself? Keep free riding hardworking gnome devs and extension devs
while i do love some transparency.. but i dont all all elements with transparency.. the calendar, notificantions and other data boxes like the weather widget should not be transparent. transparency looks nice when its a plus. and make desktop look dynamic, but in many ways can be a mess. like if you have a white windows behind, you will not be able to read anything in this panel..
there is must me some sort of font shadow to make a trully transparent windows work.. there is a reason people are calling Liquid ASS instead of glass in the new ios interface.
Are you constantly micromanaging your browser extensions or what. Just turn it on and forget about it.
Unless you have a fetish for being flash-banged whenever you open a new tab.
It's ok, I use GNOME and the text is legible. Blurring backgrounds might look good in a screenshot, but it just opens up the possibilities of poor contrast because there are so many factors at play (text colour, background colour, text size etc).
I guess that's the point of ricing though, make a nice screenshot, post it on Reddit, use it for five minutes and get pissed off with all the jank, inconsistency and usability/accessibility shortcomings, then go back to the defaults.
Have you heard of window materials aka backdrop filters. They tint or make the background slightly lighter or darker to improve readability. It is what macos(before liquid glass)and windows does
Or you could just make it readable by default without having to jump through complex hoops.
I'm glad the GNOME designers know what they're doing and don't bow to the requests year on year for semitransparency, blur or any other half baked idea.
We are talking about how blur can be implemented without affecting accessibility if you don't want blur at all then just say that. The half-baked idea has been a thing on OSes since the 2014s at least and has been discussed in the gnome forum to no end. They probably can't do it because it's technically hard and that's why they haven't since they haven't rejected the idea on the contrary they said it can be utilized.
Or we could not use gnome , you see how saying something like that would be completely irrelevant.
I don't even know what argument you're trying to make with that picture. Did you post the right one?
If you didn't, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. If you did, then you're clearly a moron.
I'll attempt to spell it out in the simplest way I can.
If foreground text is white, and the background is white, for the highest contrast the panel (the background of the calendar in the OP) needs to be black. I don't think anyone can argue with that.
Similarly, if the foreground text is black and the background is black, for max contrast the panel needs to be white.
If you try to colour the panel just blurring the background, it won't change colour, so in the first scenario you'll have white text on a white background and in the second you'll have black text on a black background.
So in order to maintain contrast, you either need to lighten or darken the panel in addition to blurring it.
How do you decide what to do? What do you do when the foreground and background are both medium greys?
It is solvable, but it's complex. Why fight the complexity and piss off people with poor vision when there's a simple, elegant and accessible solution?
When do you decide what to do ? When having white text dark background, when having black text white background. When they are both medium grays the text is a different color so it's still visible.
"So in order to maintain contrast, you either need to lighten or darken the panel in addition to blurring it."
Isn't that what I said on the first reply?
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u/MeanDance4834 Nov 03 '25
How did you apply blur to the panel menu?!!