When Plasma popups (or systemsettings category tooltip/popups) fade out, the fade animation is not smooth and a form of flickering occurs.

Can be seen (not very good tho, the framerate is not high enough) on these two videos:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/maqbhr6p0nr397s/vokoscreen-2015-01-12_10-35-12.mkv?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/98ypusy2v3vgja0/vokoscreen-2015-01-12_10-39-37.mkv?dl=0

This appears to be Blur effect related, turning that one off makes it fade out nicely.

This is binary nvidia 346.22.

(btw. if you think the videos would be better attached here, just tell me and I'll do that next time)

$ qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation 
KWin Support Information:
The following information should be used when requesting support on e.g. http://forum.kde.org.
It provides information about the currently running instance, which options are used,
what OpenGL driver and which effects are running.
Please post the information provided underneath this introductory text to a paste bin service
like http://paste.kde.org instead of pasting into support threads.

==========================

Version
=======
KWin version: 5.1.90
Qt Version: 5.4.0

Operation Mode: X11 only

Decoration
==========
Plugin: org.kde.breeze
Theme: 
Blur: 0
onAllDesktopsAvailable: false
alphaChannelSupported: true
closeOnDoubleClickOnMenu: false
decorationButtonsLeft: 0, 2
decorationButtonsRight: 6, 3, 4, 5
borderSize: 3
gridUnit: 8
font: Oxygen-Sans,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
smallSpacing: 2
largeSpacing: 8

Options
=======
focusPolicy: 0
nextFocusPrefersMouse: false
clickRaise: true
autoRaise: false
autoRaiseInterval: 0
delayFocusInterval: 0
shadeHover: false
shadeHoverInterval: 250
separateScreenFocus: false
placement: 4
focusPolicyIsReasonable: true
borderSnapZone: 10
windowSnapZone: 10
centerSnapZone: 0
snapOnlyWhenOverlapping: false
showDesktopIsMinimizeAll: false
rollOverDesktops: true
focusStealingPreventionLevel: 1
legacyFullscreenSupport: false
operationTitlebarDblClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonLeftClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonMiddleClick: 5015
operationMaxButtonRightClick: 5014
commandActiveTitlebar1: 0
commandActiveTitlebar2: 30
commandActiveTitlebar3: 2
commandInactiveTitlebar1: 4
commandInactiveTitlebar2: 30
commandInactiveTitlebar3: 2
commandWindow1: 7
commandWindow2: 8
commandWindow3: 8
commandWindowWheel: 31
commandAll1: 10
commandAll2: 3
commandAll3: 14
keyCmdAllModKey: 16777251
showGeometryTip: false
condensedTitle: false
electricBorderMaximize: true
electricBorderTiling: true
electricBorderCornerRatio: 0.25
borderlessMaximizedWindows: false
killPingTimeout: 5000
hideUtilityWindowsForInactive: true
inactiveTabsSkipTaskbar: false
autogroupSimilarWindows: false
autogroupInForeground: true
compositingMode: 1
useCompositing: true
compositingInitialized: true
hiddenPreviews: 1
unredirectFullscreen: false
glSmoothScale: 2
colorCorrected: false
xrenderSmoothScale: false
maxFpsInterval: 16666666
refreshRate: 0
vBlankTime: 6000000
glStrictBinding: false
glStrictBindingFollowsDriver: true
glCoreProfile: false
glPreferBufferSwap: 99
glPlatformInterface: 1

Screen Edges
============
desktopSwitching: false
desktopSwitchingMovingClients: false
cursorPushBackDistance: 1x1
timeThreshold: 150
reActivateThreshold: 350
actionTopLeft: 0
actionTop: 0
actionTopRight: 0
actionRight: 0
actionBottomRight: 0
actionBottom: 0
actionBottomLeft: 0
actionLeft: 0

Screens
=======
Multi-Head: no
Active screen follows mouse:  no
Number of Screens: 1
Screen 0 Geometry: 0,0,1920x1200

Compositing
===========
Compositing is active
Compositing Type: OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 660 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.22
OpenGL platform interface: GLX
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50 NVIDIA
Driver: NVIDIA
Driver version: 346.22
GPU class: Unknown
OpenGL version: 4.5
GLSL version: 4.50
X server version: 1.15.1
Linux kernel version: 3.13
Direct rendering: Requires strict binding: no
GLSL shaders:  yes
Texture NPOT support:  yes
Virtual Machine:  no
OpenGL 2 Shaders are used
Painting blocks for vertical retrace:  no

Loaded Effects:
---------------
zoom
slidingpopups
kwin4_effect_login
slide
screenshot
minimizeanimation
kwin4_effect_translucency
desktopgrid
kwin4_effect_fade
kwin4_effect_maximize
presentwindows
highlightwindow
kwin4_effect_dialogparent
blur
contrast
logout
dashboard
startupfeedback
screenedge
kscreen

Currently Active Effects:
-------------------------
blur
contrast

Effect Settings:
----------------
zoom:
zoomFactor: 1.2
mousePointer: 0
mouseTracking: 0
enableFocusTracking: false
followFocus: true
focusDelay: 350
moveFactor: 20
targetZoom: 1

slidingpopups:
fadeInTime: 150
fadeOutTime: 250

kwin4_effect_login:

slide:

screenshot:

minimizeanimation:

kwin4_effect_translucency:

desktopgrid:
zoomDuration: 300
border: 10
desktopNameAlignment: 0
layoutMode: 0
customLayoutRows: 2
usePresentWindows: true

kwin4_effect_fade:

kwin4_effect_maximize:

presentwindows:
layoutMode: 1
showCaptions: true
showIcons: true
doNotCloseWindows: false
ignoreMinimized: false
accuracy: 20
fillGaps: true
fadeDuration: 150
showPanel: false
leftButtonWindow: 1
rightButtonWindow: 2
middleButtonWindow: 0
leftButtonDesktop: 2
middleButtonDesktop: 0
rightButtonDesktop: 0

highlightwindow:

kwin4_effect_dialogparent:

blur:
blurRadius: 12
cacheTexture: true

contrast:

logout:
useBlur: true

dashboard:
brightness: 0.5
saturation: 0.5
blur: false

startupfeedback:
type: 1

screenedge:

kscreen: