Bug 314619 - Transparent background and a non-transparent frame
Summary: Transparent background and a non-transparent frame
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: notifications (show other bugs)
Version: 4.10.0
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marco Martin
URL:
Keywords:
: 312463 312672 315551 317351 317842 318376 319483 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-02-07 19:21 UTC by Ettore Atalan
Modified: 2019-08-22 01:13 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Screenshot of the global system notifications (99.62 KB, image/png)
2013-02-07 19:22 UTC, Ettore Atalan
Details
A plasmoid with a transparent frame that shouldn't be (104.28 KB, image/png)
2013-03-08 15:58 UTC, mgolden
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Transparent background under the "show hidden backgrounds" (33.77 KB, image/png)
2013-03-08 15:59 UTC, mgolden
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Transparent background under a notification (25.32 KB, image/png)
2013-03-08 16:00 UTC, mgolden
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Graphics info for my machine (122.78 KB, image/png)
2013-03-08 16:00 UTC, mgolden
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Description Ettore Atalan 2013-02-07 19:21:30 UTC
Hi

Since updating to KDE 4.10 the global system notifications consists of a transparent background and a non-transparent frame. It looks quite strange.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
A strange mix of a transparent background and a non-transparent frame.

Expected Results:  
A consistent look within the global system notifications.
Comment 1 Ettore Atalan 2013-02-07 19:22:33 UTC
Created attachment 76987 [details]
Screenshot of the global system notifications
Comment 2 mgolden 2013-03-08 15:57:54 UTC
I am seeing this issue as well, and it is not restricted just to the notifier.  Several plasmoids have transparent frames when they shouldn't have, and all of the tooltips in the system tray have transparent frames.

Worse, some things have transparent backgrounds, which can render them virtually impossible to see if they sit on top of something dark.  Hitting the little carrat that shows the hidden icons has this problem.

My machine is a Dell Latitude E6330 with Intel graphics.

I am attaching some screenshots that show the issue.
Comment 3 mgolden 2013-03-08 15:58:50 UTC
Created attachment 77863 [details]
A plasmoid with a transparent frame that shouldn't be
Comment 4 mgolden 2013-03-08 15:59:44 UTC
Created attachment 77864 [details]
Transparent background under the "show hidden backgrounds"
Comment 5 mgolden 2013-03-08 16:00:18 UTC
Created attachment 77865 [details]
Transparent background under a notification
Comment 6 mgolden 2013-03-08 16:00:58 UTC
Created attachment 77866 [details]
Graphics info for my machine
Comment 7 mgolden 2013-03-12 03:42:52 UTC
Well, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with the graphics hardware.  I am seeing the same thing on my System76 laptop, which has nvidia graphics.
Comment 8 mgolden 2013-03-12 23:10:27 UTC
This seems to have something to do with the process of upgrading from KDE 4.9.  I found that I could fix this issue by going into System Settings, changing the theme, and then changing it back.

I should say that I am on Kubuntu 12.10.  I got this by installing the backports.
Comment 9 Ettore Atalan 2013-03-13 20:16:31 UTC
It worked partially for me. Some Plasmoids are still buggy and the icons in folder view are misplaced after every theme change.
Comment 10 Jekyll Wu 2013-04-01 04:23:35 UTC
*** Bug 317351 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Jekyll Wu 2013-04-15 08:10:25 UTC
*** Bug 318376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Achim Bohnet 2013-04-15 15:12:30 UTC
On my kubuntu systems, the workaround (pseudo fix ;-) ) was:
 
* goto system settings
 * desktop effects

and choose 'Default' then 'Applu' button.

As the minority of my users are effected after an 4.8 -> 4.9 or 4.10 upgrade, I assume that only those see the weird frames that changes once their 'effects'  effects settings.

Achim
Comment 13 Orestes Mas 2013-05-03 10:27:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> This seems to have something to do with the process of upgrading from KDE
> 4.9.  I found that I could fix this issue by going into System Settings,
> changing the theme, and then changing it back.
> 
> I should say that I am on Kubuntu 12.10.  I got this by installing the
> backports.

Same bug here (just upgraded to kubuntu 13.04). But changing the theme twice fixed it. 

Thanks!
Comment 14 Jekyll Wu 2013-05-26 16:09:51 UTC
*** Bug 320265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Jekyll Wu 2013-05-26 16:09:54 UTC
*** Bug 319483 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Aaron J. Seigo 2013-05-29 11:40:59 UTC
*** Bug 312463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 David Edmundson 2013-06-06 19:33:40 UTC
*** Bug 312672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 David Edmundson 2013-06-06 19:38:15 UTC
*** Bug 317842 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19 David Edmundson 2013-06-06 19:47:04 UTC
*** Bug 315551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:05:04 UTC
Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham