Tooltip distortion on KDE Plasma

[john.kizer]

Hi - I see that there has been some conversation here already about tooltip distortion on GNOME/GTK applications, and that it seems that interest in pursuing a fix may have been muted because GTK has changed to Vulkan by default, which makes the issue moot?

GNOME/GTK Application tooltips are stretched/distorted

Original thread - (GeForce RTX 4070) GTK application issue with NVIDIA GPU. GNOME Bug report - Tooltips are stretched (#5832) Reposting the thread with a more descriptive title for additional clarity/discoverability. In GTK applications, some menus and tooltips become stretched/improperly sized. Have personally seen this issue crop up in GNOME Software dropdown menus and hover tooltips in any GTK applications. It’s especially apparent in GNOME Builder (IDE) with auto-completion. A couple exa…

However, on the latest 565 driver, I (and at least a few others) are still seeing the effects of this on KDE Plasma - 495073 – Tooltip rendering issues when rapidly switching between panel icons - is this an issue that will still be pursued by the folks at Nvidia?

Thanks!
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (146.7 KB)

[someoneiguess]

Still unfixed as of driver version 570.86.16: 499449 – Hovering over the Application Launcher icon, then an application icon, causes the tooltips to become strangely stretched.