Bug 203474

Summary:	Plasma panel height grows on various occasions
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Thomas Bächler <thomas>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, aneurin.price, asraniel, elyk53, emisca, kitts.mailinglists, marcomelo, michal.vyskocil, redm
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Thomas Bächler 2009-08-11 22:19:13 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux

I have a rather small panel on the bottom of my desktop. When I do any of the following operations, the panel height increases by a few pixels:

- Disable compositing with the keyboard shortcut
- Enable compositing with the keyboard shortcut
- Change the Plasma design
- Change the RANDR configuration (add a new screen, I only tested this one on 4.2, not yet on 4.3)
- Probably more

I would expect that the panel stays the same in size unless I reconfigure its height myself.

I am using Arch Linux binary packages for KDE 4.3 on x86_64.

Comment 1 Beat Wolf 2009-08-12 14:21:22 UTC

This is probably fixed in trunk, i saw a commit in that direction. Do you have the possibility to install kde from trunk and check?

Comment 2 Thomas Bächler 2009-08-12 14:45:51 UTC

Not easily, as I would have to build KDE and all of the needed components from source. Our build scripts only cover the current 4.3 release, so this would be a few hours' work at least.

If you could point me to the specific commit which I could backport to 4.3, that would be much easier and only a few minutes work + compile time.

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-08-12 17:03:31 UTC

*** Bug 203547 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Dario Andres 2009-08-12 21:12:44 UTC

Indeed, this is mostly bug 184905 (now both fixed in trunk at 4.3.1code). It matches the disable/enable compositing situation. The other situations are related as well.
The patch against 4.3.x is at: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.3/kdebase/workspace/plasma/containments/panel/panel.cpp?r1=1007304&r2=1007303&pathrev=1007304&view=patch

Regards

Comment 5 Beat Wolf 2009-08-18 20:47:00 UTC

Can this be marked as fixed with those patches?

Comment 6 FiNeX 2009-08-30 15:34:22 UTC

*** Bug 205687 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 FiNeX 2009-08-30 23:27:14 UTC

*** Bug 205736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Kishore 2009-09-01 23:06:31 UTC

I just installed 4.3.1 packages for kubuntu karmic and notice that this bug still exists. Panel still resizes for all those above actions. But it seems to happen only when compositing is enabled.

Comment 9 Emilio Scalise 2009-09-02 12:43:29 UTC

I have this problem since kde 4.2 on fedora. Now I have fedora kde 4.3.0 packages and the problem occurs like Thomas says on the first post.

Steps to reproduce:
- set the panel to a smaller height than the default size
- change screen resolution or kwin compositing etc like Thomas says

It would be nice if you reintroduce a setting like in kde 3.x with the panel height (smallest, small, medium, large etc etc).

kdebase-4.3.0-1.fc10.x86_64
kdebase-libs-4.3.0-1.fc10.x86_64         
kdebase-runtime-4.3.0-4.fc10.x86_64      
kdebase-runtime-libs-4.3.0-4.fc10.x86_64 
kdebase-workspace-4.3.0-9.fc10.x86_64    
kdebase-workspace-libs-4.3.0-9.fc10.x86_64

Comment 10 Aneurin Price 2009-09-02 14:14:06 UTC

As mentioned earlier, this is a dupe of bug 184905.

Comment 11 Dario Andres 2009-09-02 14:16:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 184905 ***