Summary: | Desktop and panel flicker with some non-kde4 applications | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] plasma4 | Reporter: | Atri <badshah400> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | benklop, calebjones |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | openSUSE | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Attachments: | Picture explaining flicker of panel |
Description
Atri
2008-04-27 23:53:12 UTC
Created attachment 24539 [details]
Picture explaining flicker of panel
At the bottom of the snapshot is the panel with the problem occurring with
open-office running.
not a plasma bug. upstream: x.org, x.org driver, etc. wish we could do more about this, but beyond letting upstream know about these kinds of problems, there isn't much more i can do. This problem has existed for me from the beginning (4.0 betas) through kde-nightly builds, specifically when running wine apps. That is a long time. Even if it's not a plasma bug, it's still a huge KDE problem, in my opinion, unless it is confined to us 'unlucky' 7600GT owners, which very well might be the case. > it's still a huge KDE problem
that's like saying a bug in the linux kernel is a KDE problem. or a bug in samba is a KDE problem. or a problem on slashdot.org is a KDE problem.
you may use all of them with KDE, but it's out of our hands to fix other than to report upstream.
see also bug #157017 Is there an upstream bug report for this? i have been searching, but have not yet found one. I'm seeing this regularly on a KDE machine that is currently running a NoMachine client window to another remote computer.
> that's like saying a bug in the linux kernel is a KDE problem. or a bug in samba is a KDE problem. or a problem on slashdot.org is a KDE problem.
Not entirely. While I agree that KDE cannot "fix" this if it is indeed an xorg problem (short of going the extra mile and submitting a patch, but even then it's up to xorg to accept the patch), saying there's nothing KDE can do about it isn't true.
When working with 3rd party libraries, one always has the option (and often the duty) to work around flaws in external libraries, especially when there's little expectation of the 3rd party fixing the problem. I'm not intimately familiar with how the interaction between the KDE and xorg causes this flickering to occur, but there's no indication in this bug that any level of effort has been put into exploring possible ways to work around this and/or whether working around it is better than waiting for xorg to fix (or just not fixing at all).
I'm not saying nobody at KDE has done anything about this (just what I see in this bug), but if some investigation into possible ways to work around this has been done, please leave comments. If no such investigation has taken place, then it reflects poorly on the determination to make KDE 4 a well polished desktop environment. It's often little issues like these that drive away users.
All this aside, this is just a cosmetic issue and doesn't seem to affect functionality. Either way, I'm still a happy KDE user. :)
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