Looking for KDE testers (Re: [PATCH] allow to force backing store for display)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 07:55:02PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Normally, if the theme is transparent, the workarea should blink.

No problem like this here. It must be very specific WM config.

> However, looking at the latest information on the bug report
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12119
> it seems that the issue may be limited to the window manager Sway. If this
> is the case, I'd propose to remove the GUI for the lyxrc entry and just
> leave the variable for manual tweaking.

Agreed.

> Or I could change the tooltip to say: "select this if the display blinks.
> Note that performance may suffer and that subpixel aliasing will be
> disabled."

I would only keep the RC so we could easily ask for users to test,
but until it proves to be useful, this UI looks rather distracting.

Given that another transparent WMs can deal with this situation
isn't it also reasonable to ask affected users to file the bug
against their niche WM?

(I have access to KDE machine but when I started to look how to get
the Kvantum thing working I quickly backtracked. I really don't think
this will affect large mass of users, just because you can't just
click somewhere in preferences and have it on your machine.)

Pavel