Bugzilla – Bug 113291
Semi Transparent Rubberband not enabled
Last modified: 2005-09-05 14:38:18 UTC
The SuSE Qt and KDE builds seem to have had the patches for the semi transparent rubberband applied. However the patch which adds the option to kcontrol to turn it on doesn't seem to have been enabled, and it is not enabled by default. Perhaps either the option to turn it on could be added to the effects page of kcontrol styles page as the kdebase patch here http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=21250 does. Or even better it could be turned on by default. Creating a ~/.qt/kstylerc containing the following lines enables it. [Settings] SemiTransparentRubberband=true
As requested by Adrian here my observations on an IBM ThinkPad T42p with ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2] (radeon driver): Works reliably without any problems. No drawing errors observed.
Works without problems on two machines here: 1: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] 2: nVidia Corporation NV43M [GeForce FX Go 5200] (nVidia driver enabled)
Doesn't work here (it's still the regular selection), nothing semitransparent. Driver is i810 on an Intel GMA900 (i915G chipset). OpenGL is enabled and working. BTW is OpenGL required, for semitransparent rubberband? Clean install beta3
Did you try restarting kde after creating the file? it should look like this http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/screenshots/kde/rubberband.png
Works for me. I am using Nvidia drivers. A little experience: - Does NOT work in konqueror if list view is enables (works for icon view) - I am on a screaming computer (dual xeon 2.4 GHz, 2GB memory) and is is a bit sluggish for my taste.
you're right, the suse build doesn't seem to do it with listview, which is interesting because it works in list view in konqueror on my other machine which i've patched manually ( http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/screenshots/konqfm.png ). As for speed it's fine here, even on much older machines
just FYI -- small selections (> 400x400 pixels) are fine. It's the larger ones that start to get laggish. I checked (just to make sure), and my NVidia drivers are active. If this is going to be enabled by default we just want to make sure it works well on a wide variety of machines. I'll try is elsewhere too.
doesn't work here - I've restarted KDE, even reboot the systems = no effects. tested on 2 machines: 1 - NVidia FX5200 1 - NVidia Vanta/LE tested with the default "nv" und "nvidia" in xorg.conf
does not work here on Opteron system with radeon driver. Restarted kde several times. Clean install of beta3-x86_64.
Works fine with my Nvidia Geforce4 MX440 using Nvidia drivers.
also no effects here. radeon mobility 7500 on thinkpad r40 with radeon driver.
Does not work here with nvidia geforce4 Ti4400 and nvidia 1.0.7676 driver.
---------> One note to the ones that don't have it: Before trying, make sure you've done cat > ~/.qt/kstylerc <<EOF [Settings] SemiTransparentRubberband=true EOF <------------- Worked just fine for me in a NEC Versa FS900 (Centrino 1.6 GHz with 512 Mb RAM, 30 Gb Ddisk, ATI Mobility M9 with default SuSE drivers and 3d enabled). I didn't notice and speed decrease, but in list mode it uses the usual rubberband and not the same as in icon mode.
Test with beta3. Works fine in VMware 5 (Boardname "VMWARE0405"; Driver "vmware"). Speed is no problem. It's active only in icon mode.
seems not to hurt, so we have enabled it for beta 4
It works for me too (reported not working in comment #3), in beta4, only in icon mode. Would be nice to have it in list mode as well, to be consistent.
The patches I linked to do make it work in listview mode as well, so it is possible, in fact icon view caused more problems than listview since it required a Qt patch which clearly the SUSE builds allready have, so it should be quite possible to have both, my KDE build has it in both modes.
config of comment #11 works now in beta 4. very nice. thanks.
SemiTransparentRubberband works for drivers - radeon (ATI RV250 If) - r128 (ATI Rage128 Ultra TF) Both test done with original Xorg/KDE environment of beta3
No problems here on an Thinkpad T42, Radeon Mobility 9600 (using the Xorg "radeon" driver). SUSE 10.0b4. Looks nice!