Hi,

don't know if this is the right place to post this, but everyone having problems with openoffice and plasma with NVIDIA-drivers - it seems that the new beta-NVIDIA-driver 180.08 fixes the "ugly-panel-with-KDE4-compositing-and-oppenoffice bug". Maybe someone can test this!

Greez w.

i've heard the same thing myself; Sebastian Kugler has been testing this driver with Plasma and has reported excellent results across the board. perhaps we're finally past the nVidia-and-plasma uglyness days! =)

aseigo wrote:i've heard the same thing myself; Sebastian Kugler has been testing this driver with Plasma and has reported excellent results across the board. perhaps we're finally past the nVidia-and-plasma uglyness days! =)

Yep, no problems here with oo.org anymore! Additionally, other desktop-effects work smoother
Thanx for confirming!

aseigo wrote:i've heard the same thing myself; Sebastian Kugler has been testing this driver with Plasma and has reported excellent results across the board. perhaps we're finally past the nVidia-and-plasma uglyness days! =)

Not quite there yet, but getting there. Or maybe it's just my "weird" setup of a combination of a beta of the distro (OpenSUSE 11.1) plus (pre-)beta of KDE 4.2 (4.1.72) that does it...OpenOffice 3 seeems, so far at least, to behave and hasn't yet made the taskbar flicker. The systray-icons do get artefacts on-and-off but not as frequently as before. As for something not strictly related to plasma...some fonts look kinda "colored". That is, some parts of a given letter looked kinda orangy in kickoff (as just the first place I noticed it). It could of course be because of my modified .fonts.conf file but that doesn't explain why it worked using nvidia 177.82.

Anyway, in a few more revisions of both the driver and everything else I'm sure the kinks will be worked out.

Finally, just wanted to say a big thanks to you and the rest of the KDE devs! While I loved KDE 3.5.x before, I would never be able to go back to it after being spoiled by 4.1 and later!

yeah, me too didn't see any of the classic taskbar corruptions with openoffice and mozillas

Works much better than the stable release, everything is smooth.
But I still have some annoying corruption on the battery icon in the tray. I can live with it.