Bug 344179 - Translucent menus unreadable because Blur effect is not supported by Compositor
Summary: Translucent menus unreadable because Blur effect is not supported by Compositor
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) (show other bugs)
Version: 5.2.0
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
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Reported: 2015-02-15 04:33 UTC by SP
Modified: 2015-02-23 20:26 UTC (History)
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Latest Commit: http://commits.kde.org/plasma-framework/5e53bd4d5768a3b7c8eb6a7482c5462f3315c24b
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Description SP 2015-02-15 04:33:10 UTC 
Translucent menu lists are unreadable over bright applications.  The solution is to blur the background area beneath the launcher as happens with the Lancelot launcher in kde4*

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 SP 2015-02-16 20:47:12 UTC 
I have since noticed that Blur is not supported by the Compositor.  It was enabled on the same machine in KDE 4.  
Also, I set Open GL 3.1 in the compositor and it applies OK.  But when I reopen the compositor window it falls back to XRender.  I guess these two issues are related but they were not a problem in KDE 4*
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-02-23 20:26:30 UTC 
Git commit 5e53bd4d5768a3b7c8eb6a7482c5462f3315c24b by Kai Uwe Broulik.
Committed on 23/02/2015 at 20:24.
Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'.

Don't ask KWindowEffects for blur repeatedly since we track it ourselves anyway

It might not have caught up yet when we decide to nuke the cache, resulting in
the translucent graphics staying when disabling blur or switching to XRender.

Changelog: Fix Plasma popups being hard to read tue to translucent background

REVIEW: 122676

M  +2    -2    src/plasma/private/theme_p.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/plasma-framework/5e53bd4d5768a3b7c8eb6a7482c5462f3315c24b