kwin/plasma slide-in effect

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:29 +0100, Robert Szalai 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 slow.
> 
> 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

Seeing the same. (kde-unstable, x86_64, 9800GTX, latest proprietary
drivers)
I assumed that this is an nVidia-only issue, so I didn't report it.

- Gilboa