Allow disabling of lock screen blur
Affected version
- Ubuntu 20.04
- gnome-shell 3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
- xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2.4
Bug summary
Blurring background on lock screen is a misfeature and should be possible to disable easily.
Steps to reproduce
- Upgrade from previous version of GNOME to 3.36 on Ubuntu 20.04.
- Notice that lock screen looks ugly, and there's no option in the control center to return to the previous behaviour.
What happened
Apologies in advance if I sound grumpy. I'm really trying hard to be polite and respectful.
The lock screen should not blur for users upgrading from earlier versions. This is unexpected behaviour, results in an ugly lock screen, and results in a chain of user experience/usability issues which tell a bad story for GNOME.
What did you expect to happen
- I expect to be able to see the great background screenshots that I have set, regardless of whether the screen is locked or not.
- I expect to be able to disable this unexpected behaviour easily.
- I expect that if I can't disable the unexpected behaviour easily, it should at least not make the lock screen so bad as to grate on my aesthetic senses every time I open my laptop.
- I expect when I go looking for a way to restore the previous behaviour (i.e. disable blurring) that it shouldn't need additional software such as gnome-shell extensions installed.
- I expect that even if it does require a gnome-shell extension, I shouldn't have to install a browser extension just to get the gnome-shell extension.
- I expect that it should be relatively easy for non-technical users to find out how to submit a bug in GNOME and do so without needing to understand the difference between GNOME and Ubuntu, or between Xorg and Wayland, or between gdm and gnome-shell.
Relevant logs, screenshots, screencasts etc.
A great picture like this: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1802/potw1805a_ngc7331.jpg
Turns into this on the lock screen: https://libertysys.com.au/imagebin/IMG_20201124_051409.jpg