This is an image of the right click dialog box in my playlist window.  I can't figure out what would be causing this, I can't remember how long this has been this way, but it has been a while.  I can't figure out what exactly is wrong with it.  I'm running on Gentoo unstable AMD64 and for anyone who wants it, here's my emerge info:

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Portage 2.1.3_rc3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -Os -pipe -msse3 -msse2 -mmmx"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -Os -pipe -msse3 -msse2 -mmmx"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed,--sort-common,-lz"
LINGUAS="en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl /usr/portage/local/layman/musicbrainz /usr/portage/local/layman/einit /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage /usr/local/initng-portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acct acpi aiglx aim alsa amazon amd64 amr apache2 asf automount beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bonjour boost branding bzip2 cddb cdinstall cdr cdrom chroot cli corba cracklib crypt css cups daap dbus debug dmi dri dts dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emboss emovix emul-linux-x86 encode fat ffmpeg firefox flac flash fltk font-server foomaticdb fortran gcj ggi gif gimp gimpprint gnustep gpm gsnd gstreamer gtk gtk2 h323 hal hpn iconv id3 ieee1394 imlib inkjar ipod ipv6 isdnlog ivtv jack java javascript jbig jfs jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdehiddenvisibility kipi lame layout-osx-like libnotify libsamplerate lirc lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska memlimit midi mikmod mjpeg mmap mod mono moznocompose moznoirc moznoroaming mozsvg mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap musepack musicbrainz mysql mythtv ncurses neXt nforce2 nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia objc objc++ objc-gc offensive ogg openexr opengl openmp oss pam pcre pda pdf perl png pnm ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection reiserfs replytolist rtsp samba scanner sdl sdl-image server session sftplogging shout slp smp sndfile snmp source speex spell spl sqlite srt ssl startup-notification stream svg symlink tagwriting tcpd theora thesaurus threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vfat vlm vorbis wavpack wifi wma wmf x11vnc x264 xcomposite xfs xine xinerama xml xorg xpm xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib zoran" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INITNG_PLUGINS="also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical ctrlaltdel daemon_clean debug_commands envparser find fmon fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit lockfile logfile netdev netprobe ngc4 ngcs nge pause provide reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog sysreq unneeded usplash" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev mesa nvidia nv"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

and the version of amarok I'm running although this problem seems to transverse all the versions of amarok I have tried:  amarok-1.4.6_pre20070608-r1

Are you running Beryl or similar?

Composite but that's it.  I have beryl installed but I stopped using it months ago.  I'll try uninstalling it, but I'm pretty sure it will have no effect.

Try changing your font.

I have tried changing fonts, but it didn't help.  What fonts particularly do you recommend?

I was just making a wild guess, since your font looked somewhat unusual. Other than that I'm afraid I have no idea what's wrong

Technically I don't have an explanation. Do all of your other KDE applications work without problems?

Every once in a while composite manager crashes.  And Kuroo (a portage frontend) stopped working long ago, but that's about it.  I also tried it in e16 and twm and it didn't change anything.

There is one thing that makes the playlist context menu special: It shows a pixmap along the left border, for purely cosmetic reasons. That's why we're using a special extended menu class there (which in in fact was written by me).

However, I've never seen any problems with our code, so I'm wondering how the hell it could fail so spectacularly for you. Looks like nothing is drawn at all. I'm fairly positive that something's wrong with your setup. Perhaps a KDElibs or Qt issue, or something with the graphics drivers.

Does the K menu in the KDE taskbar work for you? It's using similar code.

K Menu works fine.  Could it be that I have set the menu to have a degree of translucency?  I'll test that and then, if that doesn't work, I'll try recompiling KDElibs and Qt (one at a time, of course).

Well, the Kmenu being translucent was doing it.  No matter if I have it set for XRender blend, Software Blend, or Software Tint it isn't working.  I have the nvidia proprietary drivers with twinview enabled and have been seeing this issue probably at least since the first edition of built in compiz effects in the nvidia drivers.  Anything else I give you to help, let me know.

Hi,

There seems to be a problem with the latest QtCurve. Maybe you're using that style? I don't know any solutions other than changing the style, but you can read more here: kde-look (page 41, topic "Re: Tabs" near the bottom)

Good luck!

Thanks for solving this mystery, Mogger.

Nope, I'm not using the QtCurve Style.  I'm using the NEWstep style.