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Bug 2182

Summary:	Crystal transparent window border lockups
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Alex Couture <ac586133>
Component:	tdebase	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ac586133, bugwatch, kb9vqf
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.0.0 [Trinity]
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:
Attachments:	Debug output

Description Alex Couture 2014-11-02 07:37:35 CST

Hi,

On Ubuntu 14.04 with TDE R14 nightly builds, the Crystal window borders lockup TDE to a point where the computer is almost unuseable, just after the Crystal window boder is set in KControl. I tought it was a twin bug, but is seems to be more related to kcontrol (possibly the preview) and kdesktop

I have debug output screenshots.

Thank you!
-Alexandre

Comment 1 Alex Couture 2014-11-02 07:43:38 CST

Ok, here is the attachment:
twin.zip 10.7 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!ToADGK4Q!jvHII53iYROzsf2IJdcBcXgb1W1D_pg6Bwf0y_9Hh3k

The 1997-like 2mb file size limit has its limits :)

-Alexandre

Comment 2 Timothy Pearson 2014-11-02 09:25:37 CST

(In reply to Alex Couture from comment #1)
> Ok, here is the attachment:
> twin.zip 10.7 MB
> https://mega.co.nz/#!ToADGK4Q!jvHII53iYROzsf2IJdcBcXgb1W1D_pg6Bwf0y_9Hh3k
> 
> The 1997-like 2mb file size limit has its limits :)
> 
> -Alexandre

Size limit increased to a saner value; I don't think anyone's going to be able to upload any pirated junk in 20MB. ;-)

Tim

Comment 3 Alex Couture 2014-11-02 11:20:10 CST

Great! Anything interesting in the debug output?

Thank you!
-Alexandre

Comment 4 Timothy Pearson 2014-11-02 11:30:22 CST

(In reply to Alex Couture from comment #3)
> Great! Anything interesting in the debug output?
> 
> Thank you!
> -Alexandre

Won't be able to look at this for a few days as I am in the middle of overhauling the build farm.  In the meantime can you upload the attachment to this report instead of mega?

Thanks!

Tim

Comment 5 Alex Couture 2014-11-02 18:14:00 CST

Created attachment 2340 [details]
Debug output

Comment 6 Timothy Pearson 2014-11-03 09:54:29 CST

(In reply to Alex Couture from comment #5)
> Created attachment 2340 [details]
> Debug output

Unfortunately there isn't much that's useful in there beyond that the problem seems to be related to grabbing the background wallpaper (this makes sense as that's how the fake transparency works).  kcontrol is busy in CrystalButton::drawMenuImage so you are likely largely correct in your analysis.

Is this a regression?  If not then the best way forward is probably using the twin compositor to provide true transparency.

Thanks!

Comment 7 Alex Couture 2014-11-03 17:09:56 CST

Hi,

Yes, works perfectly on PCLinuxOS with 3.5.13.2
If you test my remaster, you'll see it at work as the default window border.
But maybe PCLinuxOS is so much better than the others that it has less bugs :)

Another detail that seems strange is that is the window border itself seems to work properly most of the time, once it is set and that I found a way to reboot.
It really seems to be something with the preview.

Thank you!
-Alexandre

Comment 8 Timothy Pearson 2014-11-10 18:34:58 CST

I'm pretty sure this was resolved with the fix for Bug 2176.  Can you test and confirm?

Thanks!

Comment 9 Alex Couture 2014-11-17 12:37:26 CST

Hi,

Yes, Crystal transparent window border now works as it should!
Thank you!

-Alexandre

Comment 10 Alex Couture 2014-11-20 18:13:40 CST

Hi,

Maybe one day it wolud be interesting to have true transparency (form compositor) available for th window border? As an example, if the active window overlaps another window, this window should be seen and not the destop.

-Alexandre