[Bug 155254] New: Make plasma look good even with composite off.

[Ciaran Gillespie]

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           Summary: Make plasma look good even with composite off.
           Product: plasma
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: panel-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: ciaran.gillespie gmail com


Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

I don't want to have composite on, or have the desktop effects on for one simple reason. It lags all my video games, and OpenGL applications. Quake 4 FPS get slashed in half, even X-Moto lags!

Though if you don't have desktop effects on you run into another problem. All the plasmoids have big black boxes around them. I'm assuming this is because the black space is suppose to by an alpha channel, but it can't render because composite isn't there to provide a 32 bit color channel. Though this leads to my next point. Why is there a big empty space around all the plasmoid windows?

I wouldn't mind if the corners around the curves were still black, but the black boarder is just awful.

http://fallenacorn.com/piko/black_boarders.jpg