Bug 225842

Summary:	kde 4.3.98 desktop strange colors, strange drawings
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Philippe ROUBACH <philippe.roubach>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	a.samirh78, andresbajotierra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	screenshot of the black panel (from the Mandriva bug report) kpc folder from kdecache.

Description Philippe ROUBACH 2010-02-07 16:51:14 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

since 4.3.98
with nvidia or nouveau driver

my control bar is black instead of grey

there is strange grey squares or part of circle in my control bar
and task bar

i have also display pb with konqueror

see

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57452

i joined several capture of my destop and one of konqueror

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2010-02-07 17:19:07 UTC

Created attachment 40590 [details]
screenshot of the black panel (from the Mandriva bug report)

Comment 2 Ahmad Samir 2010-02-07 17:32:51 UTC

I did tell you in the Mandriva bug report that the strange drawings on the panel are not a bug, they're part of the new Air plasma theme.

The actual bug here, is that the panel turns black with some heights; the default height is OK. Now this bug is only seen after a log out > log in, i.e. only when the plasma svg stuff are loaded from the cache in /var/tmp/kdecache-<user name>/kpc. Quitting plasma, deleting the cache then starting plasma again and the panel isn't black.

I reproduced this bug in a vbox install, so it's not specific to nvidia cards. This is with KDE4.3.98 in Mandriva cooker.

Attached below is the kpc folder from the cache, in case it's useful.

Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2010-02-07 17:34:10 UTC

Created attachment 40591 [details]
kpc folder from kdecache.

Comment 4 Philippe ROUBACH 2010-02-14 13:48:18 UTC

now i am sure

this pb occurs when unchecking "activate desktop effects" in "desktop effects" in desktop settings
then
apply
then
closing-opening kde session one time
then
this pb si there definitively

no pb when "activate desktop effects" is checked and applied

Comment 5 Ahmad Samir 2010-02-14 14:52:44 UTC

It happens with no desktop effects enabled at all, as I said, it happened in a vbox install, where I don't have any desktop effects enabled at all.

Comment 6 Philippe ROUBACH 2010-02-15 16:29:53 UTC

amazing experiment

2010.0 + kde 4.4.0 

no colour pb

i assume this is a Mandriva pb

Comment 7 Ahmad Samir 2010-02-15 16:36:59 UTC

So you have *Mandriva* 2010.0 with kde4.4 and you don't see the problem so now it's a Mandriva problem??

Comment 8 Ahmad Samir 2010-02-15 16:42:35 UTC

Sorry, fat fingered the commit button.

Did you try changing the height of the panel to different heights (after an initial log out > log in)? I see the problem at certain heights only.

Comment 9 Dario Andres 2010-02-16 15:18:09 UTC

The Dark/black panel problem could be related to bug 224666 and bug 226652, could you check them ?
Regards

Comment 10 Dario Andres 2010-02-16 16:27:39 UTC

Merging with bug 224666. Thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 224666 ***