kwin/plasma slide-in effect

[Eelko Berkenpies]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Robert Szalai <robicjedi at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've observed that when some popups and most notably the kickoff menu
> appear on screen it does try to slide in. The problem is that it looks
> like a landslide, the background under the menu also slides and makes
> a very distracting effect. It is also very non-smooth.
>
> Does anybody know whether there is a bug report about it, or any more
> information so that I can try to fix it? (I don't want to start from
> scratch.) Could it be a graphics driver bug? What I don't really
> understand that how can desktop effect be much slower with KDE than
> with gnome on the exact same hardware? Can somebody point me to the
> right direction to figure this out?
>
> Hardware is radeon rv730 (HD4670) on F13 fully updated using the mesa
> 7.8 drivers.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>

I've been noticing this on a few different PC's too. On my own PC I turned
the effect off by System Settings -> Desktop -> All Effects -> Turn off
"Sliding popups" and stopped bothering about it not working properly
(haven't got around on reporting it either).

I have seen this  at least in F12 (nVidia 9800 GT and a FX 5200 / proprietary
nvidia drivers), F13 (nVidia 9800 GT / proprietary drivers), F12 with some
sort of onboard ATI card and the Mesa experimental drivers.

With kind regards,

Eelko Berkenpies
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