Dumb thought question: Why not draw the tooltips animated on the canvas when in a non-composited mode?
I can see one problem: you won't be able to see tooltips when the canvas window is obscured. So, when in non-composited, how about combining the on-canvas-animation with a full-fledged X-window that takes the place of the tooltip when the animation is complete? It would mean that when the canvas is visible, everything can be smoothly animated, even non-composited. When the canvas is obscured, there is less animation, but you can still get all the tooltip information you need. And when full-composited animated windows are supported, the on-canvas animation method could be disabled in-lieu of real animation. Yes, a horrible hack. I really don't expect you to do that, especially since it may be that in the next year or two KDE could actually run with composite-by-default in Linux systems. But just a thought. PS. Is it impossible to draw a transparent (by color-key, I guess) window in X? If so, there might could just be a tooltip canvas that sits on top of everything. I admit these are very desperate and probably impractical ideas. Plasma may not even like the idea of having more than one big screen canvas at a time. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel