Some changes with 4.4.0

[Orion Poplawski]

This is a bit of a followup to discussion on fedora-devel.  Here are 
some changes with 4.4.0 for one of my users that happened today:

- Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey 
background.  This is just one of those annoying things that seem to 
happen fairly frequently with KDE updates.  Doesn't take a whole lot of 
time to fix, but is still annoying.

- Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on 
it.  See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png.  Several 
users have gotten this.  I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't 
find it now.  Intel video (82G33/G31).  This is pretty tough to live with.

[Temlakos]

On 03/18/2010 11:29 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> This is a bit of a followup to discussion on fedora-devel.  Here are
> some changes with 4.4.0 for one of my users that happened today:
> Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey
>
> background.  This is just one of those annoying things that seem to
> happen fairly frequently with KDE updates.  Doesn't take a whole lot of
> time to fix, but is still annoying.
> Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on
>
> it.  See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png.  Several
> users have gotten this.  I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't
> find it now.  Intel video (82G33/G31).  This is pretty tough to live with.

A /white/ background??? That background should be black. And anyway, I 
always select a desired background to get the basic black that I want. 
Of course, I also try to select a wallpaper that will best fill the 
screen with a minimum of letterboxing--or panning-and-scanning.

Temlakos

[Rex Dieter]

On 03/18/2010 10:29 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> This is a bit of a followup to discussion on fedora-devel.  Here are
> some changes with 4.4.0 for one of my users that happened today:
> Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey
>
> background.  This is just one of those annoying things that seem to
> happen fairly frequently with KDE updates.  Doesn't take a whole lot of
> time to fix, but is still annoying.

No bugs/reports of that ever happening, so it's hard to say what went 
wrong.  any ideas?
> Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on
>
> it.  See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png.  Several
> users have gotten this.  I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't
> find it now.  Intel video (82G33/G31).  This is pretty tough to live with.

Try 4.4.1, but I'm pretty sure this one's not fixed yet.

-- Rex

[Rex Dieter]

On 03/18/2010 10:35 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 10:29 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > This is a bit of a followup to discussion on fedora-devel. Here are
> > some changes with 4.4.0 for one of my users that happened today:
> > Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey
> >
> > background. This is just one of those annoying things that seem to
> > happen fairly frequently with KDE updates. Doesn't take a whole lot of
> > time to fix, but is still annoying.
>
> No bugs/reports of that ever happening, so it's hard to say what went
> wrong. any ideas?

In particular, if you happen to have a copy of the users'
~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
(before you fixed it), then we may have a chance to test too.

-- Rex

[Orion Poplawski]

On 03/18/2010 09:38 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 10:35 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > On 03/18/2010 10:29 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > This is a bit of a followup to discussion on fedora-devel. Here are
> > > some changes with 4.4.0 for one of my users that happened today:
> > > Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey
> > >
> > > background. This is just one of those annoying things that seem to
> > > happen fairly frequently with KDE updates. Doesn't take a whole lot of
> > > time to fix, but is still annoying.
> >
> > No bugs/reports of that ever happening, so it's hard to say what went
> > wrong. any ideas?
>
> In particular, if you happen to have a copy of the users'
> ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
> (before you fixed it), then we may have a chance to test too.

This is what it was before the update.

The relevant change appears to be ( to the current version):

[Containments][1][Wallpaper][color]
+backgroundMode=0
+color1=210,255,252
+color2=0,0,0
  wallpapercolor=60,115,105

[Martin Kho]

> On 03/18/2010 09:38 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > On 03/18/2010 10:35 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > On 03/18/2010 10:29 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > > This is a bit of a followup to discussion on fedora-devel. Here are
> > > > some changes with 4.4.0 for one of my users that happened today:
> > > > Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey
> > > >
> > > > background. This is just one of those annoying things that seem to
> > > > happen fairly frequently with KDE updates. Doesn't take a whole lot of
> > > > time to fix, but is still annoying.
> > >
> > > No bugs/reports of that ever happening, so it's hard to say what went
> > > wrong. any ideas?
> >
> > In particular, if you happen to have a copy of the users'
> > ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
> > (before you fixed it), then we may have a chance to test too.
>
> This is what it was before the update.
>
> The relevant change appears to be ( to the current version):
>
> [Containments][1][Wallpaper][color]
> +backgroundMode=0
> +color1=210,255,252
> +color2=0,0,0
>   wallpapercolor=60,115,105

Hi,

I don't have a section [Containments][1][Wallpaper][color] at all. In my config 
I only have [Containments][1][Wallpaper][image]. No issues with the Panel.

In your config under:
[Containments][1][Wallpaper][image] there is: wallpapercolor=56,111,150

and under:

[Containments][1][Wallpaper][color] there is: wallpapercolor=60,115,105

Can't these conflict?

Martin Kho

[Thomas Janssen]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Rex Dieter  wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 10:29 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > This is a bit of a followup to discussion on fedora-devel.  Here are
> > some changes with 4.4.0 for one of my users that happened today:
> > Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey
> >
> > background.  This is just one of those annoying things that seem to
> > happen fairly frequently with KDE updates.  Doesn't take a whole lot of
> > time to fix, but is still annoying.
>
> No bugs/reports of that ever happening, so it's hard to say what went
> wrong.  any ideas?
> > Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on
> >
> > it.  See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png.  Several
> > users have gotten this.  I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't
> > find it now.  Intel video (82G33/G31).  This is pretty tough to live with.
>
> Try 4.4.1, but I'm pretty sure this one's not fixed yet.

Fixed here since 4.4.1. Well at least never seen. with or without kwin effects.
ATI radeon HD3650 with mesa-dri-drivers-experimental

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 03/18/2010 12:29 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> This is a bit of a followup to discussion on fedora-devel.  Here are
> some changes with 4.4.0 for one of my users that happened today:
> Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey
>
> background.  This is just one of those annoying things that seem to
> happen fairly frequently with KDE updates.  Doesn't take a whole lot of
> time to fix, but is still annoying.
> Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on
>
> it.  See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png.  Several
> users have gotten this.  I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't
> find it now.  Intel video (82G33/G31).  This is pretty tough to live with.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~orion/fedora/panel.png on this server.

[Orion Poplawski]

On 03/18/2010 09:37 AM, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on
> >
> > it. See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png. Several
> > users have gotten this. I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't
> > find it now. Intel video (82G33/G31). This is pretty tough to live with.
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /~orion/fedora/panel.png on this
> server.

That's odd, didn't expect TB to save with 600 permissions.  Fixed.

[José Abílio Matos]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 15:29:31 Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on
>
> it.  See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png.  Several 
> users have gotten this.  I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't 
> find it now.  Intel video (82G33/G31).  This is pretty tough to live with.

I see this with ati and intel graphic cards. My major complain here is the 
clock that is on the right side and is mostly invisible with this bug. :-)

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 15:43:47 José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 15:29:31 Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on
> >
> > it.  See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png.  Several
> > users have gotten this.  I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't
> > find it now.  Intel video (82G33/G31).  This is pretty tough to live
> > with.
>
> I see this with ati and intel graphic cards. My major complain here is the
> clock that is on the right side and is mostly invisible with this bug. :-)

It isn't a problem oh this ATi Mobility Radeon X600.  Could it be theme-
related?  I use Air with a Glassified panel.

Anne

[José Abílio Matos]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 17:51:36 Anne Wilson wrote:
> It isn't a problem oh this ATi Mobility Radeon X600.  Could it be theme-
> related?  I use Air with a Glassified panel.
>
> Anne

Thanks Anne,
    I use Oxygen for applications and changing the workspace theme to Oxygen 
as well made all that visible again.

Thank you. :-)

[Orion Poplawski]

On 03/18/2010 12:09 PM, José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 17:51:36 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > It isn't a problem oh this ATi Mobility Radeon X600.  Could it be theme-
> > related?  I use Air with a Glassified panel.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Thanks Anne,
>    I use Oxygen for applications and changing the workspace theme to Oxygen
> as well made all that visible again.
>
> Thank you. :-)

It appears that picking either Oxygen or Air fixes it here.  But you 
have to actually select and apply to get it changed.

[José Abílio Matos]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 21:32:00 Orion Poplawski wrote:
> It appears that picking either Oxygen or Air fixes it here.  But you 
> have to actually select and apply to get it changed.

Yes, I meant to say that (although I did not). :-)

[Gabriel Ramirez]

On 03/18/2010 09:29 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Background went completely white - previously was the blue/grey
>
> background.  This is just one of those annoying things that seem to
> happen fairly frequently with KDE updates.  Doesn't take a whole lot of
> time to fix, but is still annoying.
> Panel is partially black with very hard to read transparent icons on
>
> it.  See http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/panel.png.  Several
> users have gotten this.  I seem to remember a bug on this, but can't
> find it now.  Intel video (82G33/G31).  This is pretty tough to live with.

I have a machine with that chipset:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

and don't have any graphics problems with kde 4.4.0,

but the only changes which I did in kde 4.3 was change the background to 
Air, added a autohide panel to put apps icons, and activated the desktop 
effects. the update to 4.4.0 was smooth

so maybe a user customization in the configuration of kde trigger the bug.

regards,

Gabriel