Tim, Darrell,

  I recall discussion earlier about optimizations applied to R14. Did any of
those have to do with the number of times a toolbar or menu is drawn or
refreshed on first display? I ask because I am seeing a lot of text that is
either missing or cut-off when a kcontrol app, or menu is displayed.

  The text headings in the individual kcontrol apps and pop-up config items are
the worst. When you first open a config applet the top-half of the text is for
the block titles. For example:

open 'konqueror --profile filemanagement'  (or 'Personal Files' on taskbar) The
first block of options contains radio buttons for 'color' or 'picture' the block
title for that group is 'Background'. When that dialog is first displayed, the
top part of 'Background' is missing like it got clipped when the next element
was drawn -- and then was never refreshed a last time to insure the entirety of
all elements were visible. I don't ever recall seeing this behavior in the past
and comparing to an older 3.5.13-sru install -- that does not occur.

  Another area is menu entries. Open kwrite and open the 'Edit' menu. When I
first to this the Ctrl+G 'Go To' line contains nothing but the underscore and
the Ctrl+G tooltip:

"    _                      Ctrl+G  "


  I just clicked it again and this time the "Overwrite Mode" text disappeared
leaving only the 'Insert' tooltip on the right-side. An time focus changes, the
text is restored (both in kwrite, kcontrol, etc..) Since a focus change (which I
guess forces a redraw) corrects the issue, it makes it almost impossible to
capture with ksnapshot.

  I have nothing concrete, but the feel I get is that some type of optimization
fix was done to prevent TDE from redrawing a menu or applet one or two more
times after initial display. I don't know if that is it, but it just feels like
the elements are 1 redraw or refresh away from being ready when they are first
displayed.

  You guys think about this and let me know where to go with it...


-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.