Plasma 5.12 goal: let's get Wayland ready!

[Marco Martin]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:11 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Martin Flöser <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
>> >> yep, i like it and  i'll try!
>> >> some times tough some help is needed to even figure out where the
>> >> problem
>> >> is...
>> >> for tme the thing that makes my laptop unusable with wayland is a very
>> >> bad
>> >> flicker in many qwidget apps, especially kate and to a lesse extent
>> >> dolphin are
>> >> pretty much blinking like disco lights just by moving the mouse on top
>> >> of
>> >> the
>> >> app window.
>> >>
>> >> Where should i start to look about that?
>> >
>> >
>> > Most likely in Qt. I had seen this once in kate as well and it looked to
>> > me
>> > like either Qt is not updating correctly (single buffering?) or what I
>> > consider more likely this is a tooltip issue. At least in dolphin I see
>> > that
>> > tooltips open and are not properly marked as a transient. If it is now
>> > under
>> > the mouse we get flicker, because it opens, gains focus and dolphin then
>> > destroys it again and the complete process repeats. I hope that the Qt
>> > 5.9.2
>> > fixes that.
>>
>> one thing i noticed which i don't know if it's of any indication, is
>> that on weston (and kate still using the wayland qpa) that flicker
>> doesn't happen
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> I have this kate problem sometimes.
>
> I'll track here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385692
>

I'm running since a while with
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/208449/

and the problem is gone, is a breezenow to use =D

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Marco Martin