Bug 504475 - Lower framerate while task switcher is visible while using ICC color profile and "prefer color accuracy" setting
Summary: Lower framerate while task switcher is visible while using ICC color profile ...
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: colour-management (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.90
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Keywords: efficiency-and-performance
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Reported: 2025-05-18 15:40 UTC by Patrick Silva
Modified: 2025-05-19 15:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Patrick Silva 2025-05-18 15:40:26 UTC
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open a video - I use Haruna player
2. open another app
3. alt+tab to video player and hold alt key

OBSERVED RESULT
the video is extremely laggy while we hold alt key

EXPECTED RESULT
the video plays with normal framerate

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.6-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31,2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Comment 1 Vlad Zahorodnii 2025-05-19 13:37:57 UTC
Is this a regression in comparison to 6.3?
Comment 2 Patrick Silva 2025-05-19 13:49:37 UTC
Yes.
Comment 3 Vlad Zahorodnii 2025-05-19 13:59:16 UTC
FWIW I cannot reproduce the issue on my machine. It might a graphics driver or some frame scheduling issue (or maybe the gpu is not keeping up with blur or something).
Comment 4 Vlad Zahorodnii 2025-05-19 13:59:45 UTC
Did you enable color management or something?
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-05-19 14:53:09 UTC
I also cannot reproduce this. My hardware is substantially newer though:

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon™ 780M Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (14.9 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M

It could be something that only shows up on older hardware.

One thing to mention... when you hold the Alt key, the selection highlight effect should go all the way to to the end of the window list/grid, but not loop around.

That's the behavior you see, right? And if so, does the lag happen only while the highlight is moving, or does it persist after the highlight reaches the end and stops?
Comment 6 Patrick Silva 2025-05-19 15:01:47 UTC
I use an icc color profile. The bug only occurs if "Color accuracy" is set to "Prefer color accuracy" in Display Configuration KCM.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2025-05-19 15:03:57 UTC
In that case this may be at least somewhat expected. The UI for that feature does warn you that it will reduce performance.
Comment 8 Zamundaaa 2025-05-19 15:13:57 UTC
Older hardware like that is especially affected by the increased bit depth, this is indeed expected. The option is set to prefer efficiency for a reason.