Plasma - any hope for my laptop?

[Germano Massullo]

Il 06/10/2015 12:08, Reindl Harald ha scritto:
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> Am 06.10.2015 um 07:47 schrieb Mustafa Muhammad:
>> I think Plasma 5 uses OpenGL (hardware accelerated) shell, this is why
>> display drivers have much more effect on it's stability (compared to
>> KDE4)
>> For your laptop, if you have hybrid graphics, probably you can disable
>> the external GPU from the BIOS, this will give you better experience.
>
> and how does that explain that i had KDE4 desktop effects also
> configured on my IvyBridge/SandyBridge machines to use OpenGL and
> never saw effects like new windows sometimes appear first as a black
> rectangle until the window finally got displayed?
>
Reindl's is right. Plasma 5 graphical glitches are very annoying, months
ago when I just installed F22 KDE Plasma 5 I ingenuously thought it was
only a Kickoff problem and I filled a bugreport [1] "Increase transition
timings between entries and sub-entries" but the problem interests all
the Plasma 5 graphical user interface. As soon as possible I want to
fill some bugreports using different videocards and FOSS drivers. I only
need to be told if there are any Plasma and/or driver flags that need to
enabled in order to get debuginfos.
I will also record some videos with a camera, to better show to KDE
developers what I exactly mean by "graphical glitches"

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348691