Bug 503180

Summary: Visual artifact in applet expanding animation, when both Blur and Background Contrast are enabled
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Jin Liu <ad.liu.jin>
Component: effects-variousAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kdedev, xaver.hugl
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: recording

Description Jin Liu 2025-04-22 16:07:53 UTC
Created attachment 180527 [details]
recording

SUMMARY

See attachment. During the expanding animation, there is a visual artifact at the bottom of the applet.
The height of the artifact is proportional to the "Blur Strength" setting.
The problem doesn't happen when only one of Blur or Background Contrast is enabled.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-04-22 19:20:21 UTC
Thanks for the bug report and the screen recording, which clearly shows the visual effect

The applet in the screen recording is Application Launcher
I'm not seeing this in git-master (Qt 6.8.2) or Fedora 42 (Plasma 6.3.4 Qt 6.9.0)
I even slowed down animation speed, but still don't see it.

Does this happen with a brand new user?
Comment 2 Jin Liu 2025-04-23 01:22:28 UTC
Yes it does happen with a brand new user.
Comment 3 TraceyC 2025-04-23 16:37:03 UTC
Thanks for testing that. I'll let the more experienced kwin contributors take it from here.
Comment 4 Zamundaaa 2025-10-14 14:34:24 UTC
I recall a similar bug being fixed in Plasma 6.4. Does this still happen for you there?
Comment 5 Jin Liu 2025-10-14 16:33:11 UTC
Can confirm that it no longer happens in 6.5beta2.