KDE taskbar glitch ?

[Mark A. Taff]

On Friday 23 June 2006 14:51, Dave S wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have updated my machine to Dapper and all is well, I have updated my
> wifes machine and all is well apart from the KDE taskbar.
>
> It is configured as transparent with a slow hiding animation. When the bar
> pops up it appears jolty and there is a blue flash behind the transparency
> for a fraction of a second.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this ?

Yes.

I'm guessing your wallpaper is blue-ish?  If I recall correctly, this surfaced 
in 3.5.0 as part of a much larger issue.  Most of it has been fixed in 
3.5.2+, but this flash remains.

My understanding is that kicker (the panel), the applets (including taskbar), 
and KWin have been pushed, hacked, and dragged along--kicking and 
screaming--in order to implement the latest features like the transparency, 
etc.  When you push an API that hard, you start to run into problems like 
this.

I believe Aaron S., et alia are truly happy to be able to re-actor the whole 
mess from scratch for KDE4.  The new plasma interface should give us the 
power for the next round of desktop advancements.

As for the blue flash, I hardly notice it any more. ;-)

Mark