On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Robert Szalai robicjedi@googlemail.comwrote:

Hi All,

I've observed that when some popups and most notably the kickoff menu appear on screen it does try to slide in. The problem is that it looks like a landslide, the background under the menu also slides and makes a very distracting effect. It is also very non-smooth.

Does anybody know whether there is a bug report about it, or any more information so that I can try to fix it? (I don't want to start from scratch.) Could it be a graphics driver bug? What I don't really understand that how can desktop effect be much slower with KDE than with gnome on the exact same hardware? Can somebody point me to the right direction to figure this out?

Hardware is radeon rv730 (HD4670) on F13 fully updated using the mesa 7.8 drivers.

Thanks, Robert

I've been noticing this on a few different PC's too. On my own PC I turned the effect off by System Settings -> Desktop -> All Effects -> Turn off "Sliding popups" and stopped bothering about it not working properly (haven't got around on reporting it either).

I have seen this at least in F12 (nVidia 9800 GT and a FX 5200 / proprietary nvidia drivers), F13 (nVidia 9800 GT / proprietary drivers), F12 with some sort of onboard ATI card and the Mesa experimental drivers.

With kind regards,

Eelko Berkenpies