| Summary: | Glitchy flickering artifacts while rendering tooltips on system tray and certain applications when using Morphing Popups effect | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | Mingcong Bai <jeffbai> |
| Component: | effects-various | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | epluribusunum1776, feus73, nate, pf |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.25.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/d6360cc4ce4e0d85862a4bb077b8b3dc55cd74a7 | Version Fixed In: | |
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Description
Mingcong Bai
2022-11-06 14:58:09 UTC
Thank you for the bug report! Please note that Plasma 5.25.5 is not supported for much longer by KDE; supported versions are 5.24, and 5.26 or newer. If at all possible please upgrade to a supported version and verify that the bug is still happening there. If you're unsure how to do this, contact your distributor about it. As a workaround, disabling the "Morphing popups" would prevent the glitchiness. I can confirm this issue on a newer Plasma version as well: Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230124 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.7-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 BTW, I've never understood why the first tooltip is being displayed after a certain delay, which is good, but the next ones are displayed immediately. This causes many tooltips which pops here and there, and it's annoying. Confirmed on: Operating System: Mageia 9 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 Kernel Version: 6.3.2-server-3.mga9 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K Memory: 125.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 8950 There appear to be many ways to trigger this flickering; often, the mouse must be moved back to the area that started the flickering in order to get it to stop -- that means the flickering can last a long time if ignored. Another related(?) artifact is that the tooltip images of applications will sometimes display another application's images. Just now, I hovered over claws-mail and the tooltip image was of okular and vice-versa... A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5861 Git commit d6360cc4ce4e0d85862a4bb077b8b3dc55cd74a7 by David Edmundson. Committed on 11/06/2024 at 19:58. Pushed by davidedmundson into branch 'master'. effects: Drop morphing popups effect The effect does not work very well for two main reasons: Some clients will make a new popup rather than move an existing one, so whether it does anything is highly unpredictable as a user. Popups can be of massively different sizes with different amounts of text. This means the text in the smaller popup gets resized which doesn't look like a natural in-between state of the two popups. This defeats the objective of looking smoother. On top of that, it's rather glitchy. This effect was purely visual, no functionality changes. Related: bug 473411, bug 466638, bug 416048, bug 466637 M +0 -1 src/plugins/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -1 src/plugins/morphingpopups/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -137 src/plugins/morphingpopups/package/contents/code/main.js D +0 -144 src/plugins/morphingpopups/package/metadata.json https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/d6360cc4ce4e0d85862a4bb077b8b3dc55cd74a7 |