Visual distortion with sliding popups

[Marco Martin]

On Sunday 09 May 2010, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think you all have seen the visual distortion when opening e.g. Kickoff
> with Sliding Popups effect (with blur effect it's very visible as you see
> the blurred region before the dialog is shown). Today I tried around a
> little bit and noticed that Lancelot is not showing this problem. So I
> looked a little bit around the source code and changed the following:
> Index: applet/applet.cpp
> [...]
> 
> The WA_TranslucentBackground attribute is set on Dialog, too.
> 
> If someone could confirm this observation and the comment in dialog.cpp is
> right I'd say we go through the complete Plasma codebase and fix this
> annoying issue :-)
> 

i find this issue too. and the solution seems to work as well.
however, also with this the first time the slide doesn't happen, i think 
because there still doesn't exist a pixmap of the window?


Cheers,
Marco Martin