On Thursday 30 of January 2014 15:31:00 David C. Rankin wrote: > 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... After updating from 3.5.13.2 to R14.0.0 (nightly-builds) I also noticing some problems in rendering. See bug http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1693 Slavek --