When you pass your mouse pointer over Homerun entries, subentries menu (on the right) you will be immediately opened, even if you move the mousepointer in a very fast way. Moreover, very fast transitions can also create graphical glitches. In my opinion, increasing "wait" timings would be better. Using as model the timings of KDE 4 classic menu ( https://userbase.kde.org/File:Kickoff_Menu_Classic.png ) would be great. Reproducible: Always
This is actually not true; there's a delay both on vertical moves and an even longer delay on diagonal moves (to avoid accidental switches when moving into submenus). That said, this version of the codebase is currently not seeing any work - Homerun Kicker was rewritten from scratch and bundled with Plasma 5.
(In reply to Eike Hein from comment #1) > Homerun Kicker was rewritten from scratch and bundled > with Plasma 5. Then it seems that I selected the wrong component, because I meant the Plasma 5 version. (In reply to Eike Hein from comment #1) > This is actually not true; there's a delay both on vertical moves and an > even longer delay on diagonal moves (to avoid accidental switches when > moving into submenus). Do you mean the KDE 4 version or Plasma 5 version?
^ It's true for both, although the delay on purely vertical moves is shorter in the Plasma 5 version since it's much faster and the long delay in the KDE 4 version was partly to compensate for performance issues.
I noticed I missed a fundamental information: the problem happens when the composer is disabled, so you do not have any special desktop effect enabled
I still don't know what the problem actually is though.
Please provide more info on those "graphical glitches".
(In reply to Eike Hein from comment #6) > Please provide more info on those "graphical glitches". I made a video showing various glitches on both "task manager" and "application menu". It happens using either Intel FOSS drivers or nVidia propertary drivers https://youtu.be/b1yZ0LoYpAg
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Since Germano asked me for a comment: IMHO, there should be no transition animation, the submenu should just open instantly once it was decided that it should open. The delay to decide that should also be very short (though probably not zero, because otherwise a mouseover will result in a mess). Animations and long delays just waste our time.
I can confirm this problem with composer enabled too (all effects disabled)
There are no animations, and I still don't really understand what this ticket is about.
Did you even bother to see video in comment 7?
I did, and I see poor graphical performance that seems to be general on your system, nothing that's specific to Kicker. In lieu of replacing your graphics driver/hardware (probably the most practical solution), Wayland would probably perform better than X11 on your system - at least some of the glitches I see in your video are caused X11 being very poor at doing window mapping and resizing atomically (yes, despite the existence of the sync protocol) - between Qt Quick and X11 resizing the dialog window and the GL scene inside doesn't always happen within one frame, and most likely due to poor performance or driver bugs, it's especially bad on your system. Unfortunately that's nothing that can be affected from the level of Kicker's code though (and we've already tried pretty hard to optimize this in kwin/Qt Quick and even xcb by trying to use the sync protocol in more creative ways, texture reuse, etc. without much success). Wayland inherently fixes these kinds of problems by design though, so might be worth trying if the Wayland session is already feature-complete enough for your needs.
I asked Germano on IRC (in Italian) what he really wants, and he explained that he wants a longer delay for opening submenus on mouseover (because moving the mouse over the menu opens all the submenus, which slows everything down for him, even the highlighting of the menu items under the mouse). I'm not convinced it's a good idea, but that's what this bug is about. I also think this is mainly a driver issue.
I have found the following never sent message while cleaning opened Firefox tabs. Since is still valid, I submit it now New video with https://youtu.be/xVRjozj58Gw The system tries to render the next frame when the render of the previous one was not yet finished 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480] (rev c7) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Radeon RX 480 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 32 NUMA node: 0 Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 2: Memory at dfe00000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M] Region 4: I/O ports at ce00 [size=256] Region 5: Memory at fd980000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [58] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+ LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, LTR+, OBFF Not Supported DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 8GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis- Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS- Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1- EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest- Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 00000000fee0400c Data: 41c2 Capabilities: [100 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?> Capabilities: [150 v2] Advanced Error Reporting UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr- CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+ AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn- Capabilities: [200 v1] #15 Capabilities: [270 v1] #19 Capabilities: [2b0 v1] Address Translation Service (ATS) ATSCap: Invalidate Queue Depth: 00 ATSCtl: Enable-, Smallest Translation Unit: 00 Capabilities: [2c0 v1] Page Request Interface (PRI) PRICtl: Enable- Reset- PRISta: RF- UPRGI- Stopped+ Page Request Capacity: 00000020, Page Request Allocation: 00000000 Capabilities: [2d0 v1] Process Address Space ID (PASID) PASIDCap: Exec+ Priv+, Max PASID Width: 10 PASIDCtl: Enable- Exec- Priv- Capabilities: [320 v1] Latency Tolerance Reporting Max snoop latency: 0ns Max no snoop latency: 0ns Capabilities: [328 v1] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI) ARICap: MFVC- ACS-, Next Function: 1 ARICtl: MFVC- ACS-, Function Group: 0 Capabilities: [370 v1] L1 PM Substates L1SubCap: PCI-PM_L1.2+ PCI-PM_L1.1+ ASPM_L1.2+ ASPM_L1.1+ L1_PM_Substates+ PortCommonModeRestoreTime=0us PortTPowerOnTime=170us L1SubCtl1: PCI-PM_L1.2- PCI-PM_L1.1- ASPM_L1.2- ASPM_L1.1- T_CommonMode=0us LTR1.2_Threshold=0ns L1SubCtl2: T_PwrOn=10us Kernel driver in use: amdgpu Kernel modules: amdgpu