Bug 464880

Summary: Text in panel tooltip stretches when cursor moves
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: gudvinr+kde
Component: PanelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: nate, niccolo.venerandi
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description gudvinr+kde 2023-01-26 22:27:15 UTC
Created attachment 155688 [details]
screen record

SUMMARY

When you quickly change applet that mouse points to, text in tooltip stretches, which makes it look very ugly.

I am not sure what to suggest to make this effect look nicer but what happens now doesn't look good. It is especially noticeable when you move between widget with drastically different tooltips, e.g. short text vs player control.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Maybe set animation speed to something faster than default
2. Point to widget on panel
3. Wait for tooltip to appear
4. Move mouse back and forth between widgets

OBSERVED RESULT
Text stretches and looks ugly

EXPECTED RESULT
Tooltips not looking ugly

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.7-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL Graphics
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-01-27 17:52:33 UTC
This is just the Morphing Popups effect in action. If you don't like it, you're welcome to turn it off. As you said, yeah, it's hard to imagine a better approach given what it is and does.