Bug 241664

Summary: Where blur doesn't work, plasma-netbook theme is too transparent
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Marcus Harrison <marcus>
Component: visualsAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: asraniel, notmart
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Transparency of the networkmanager widget getting in the way

Description Marcus Harrison 2010-06-13 17:46:46 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

On KDE 4.5 Beta 2 using Kubuntu's beta PPA, the blur effect doesn't work on my Dell Mini 10v with Intel Atom processor and integrated graphics. Because it doesn't work, the very transparent theme can make the likes of plasma tooltips and notifications unreadable, because the text of background windows interferes with the text of the tooltip or notification.

If the blur effect not working is due to a limitation in the integrated graphics of Intel's processors, which are very common in netbooks, or other processors such as ARM-based chips, then the plasma netbook theme should be altered to compensate. On the standard desktop, where Blur is more likely to work, heavy translucency is likely to be acceptable.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Beat Wolf 2010-06-14 09:13:41 UTC 
marking as major because this causes problems for a whole range of people with a certain hardware.
Comment 2 Marco Martin 2010-06-14 11:47:38 UTC 
can you provide a screenshot? if should use the opaque version of the graphics as everywhere when the blur is not available
Comment 3 Marcus Harrison 2010-06-15 02:42:24 UTC 
Created attachment 48019 [details]
Transparency of the networkmanager widget getting in the way

Note that this is with blur enabled and set to full strength: it simply doesn't work.
Comment 4 Marco Martin 2010-06-24 14:47:19 UTC 
it's definitely picking the wrong background, but doesn't seem to be reproducible there :/
Comment 5 Marcus Harrison 2010-06-30 00:59:13 UTC 
Good news: blur is working on my (and other people's) Intel Atom-based netbook since RC1. I don't think this bug is valid any more, but I'll leave it open for the developers' better judgement.