Some years back someone built a Sailfish theme for Nokia N9 and he had documented how to create that blur effect. IIRC, it was a mask that had to be applied over the image (in some image editor? or was it dynamic? do not remember that!) to create the effect. And that was brilliant. I don't remember who, how, when, or where, but just that I have used that theme. Edit: Oh was it Ancelad! https://openrepos.net/content/ancela...heme-harmattan http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91743