summary says it all.
From http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14447 I have found a KDE-based work around that fixes the bug in the plasmoid code. See the KDE bug report above for more details but if you want to maintain the bugfix, it is a one-liner in kdeplasma-addons-4.2.3/applets/rssnow/scroller.cpp: comment out scroller.cpp line 65: //setFlag(QGraphicsItem::ItemClipsChildrenToShape, true); This flag causes the bug, and the work-around's only negaitive effect is that the scrolling stories will not be clipped outside the plasmoid's window while animating. That is a little ugly, but at least operational until Qt is fixed. As noone upstream seems to be working on patching this issue for 4.2.x, we might want to add the patch.
I'll snag this.
Oh gosh, with the patch, it's pretty darn unusable still. I'll post a screenshot.
bleh, on logout/login not nearly as bad. ok, people will complain, but it's at least better than before alright.
Patch included in kdeplasma-addons-4.2.3-2, which should be done separately from the kde-4.2.3 update (include with qt-4.5.1 or do by itself).
Hmm, it's better but still looks strange as it's missing clipping...
qt-4.5.1-10.fc11, kdelibs-4.2.3-3.fc11, kdeplasma-addons-4.2.3-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update qt kdelibs kdeplasma-addons'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-4813
kdelibs-4.2.3-3.fc11, kdeplasma-addons-4.2.3-2.fc11, qt-4.5.1-11.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kdelibs kdeplasma-addons qt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-4813
kdelibs-4.2.3-3.fc11, kdeplasma-addons-4.2.3-2.fc11, qt-4.5.1-13.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kdelibs kdeplasma-addons qt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-4813
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
kdelibs-4.2.3-3.fc11, kdeplasma-addons-4.2.3-2.fc11, qt-4.5.1-13.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.