From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: Under KDE, the login, desktop, and toolbar icons are "washed out". By that, I mean that many of the pixels are transparent so the background shows through, in a random fashion (i.e. one icon appears better than another). Desktop icons under Gnome appear fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-3.0.0-0.cvs20020321.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login under KDE 2. 3. Additional info: The computer is a Dell 300SC, with a ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC AGP video card.
Sounds like an X driver issue.
This is likely to be an XRENDER problem - the difference between KDE and GNOME here is that KDE uses XRENDER to draw its icons.
Not necessarily.. could be a number of problems. My first suscpicion is an 8 bit video mode. Can you please attach both your X server log, and config file uncompressed using the file attachment link below.
Created attachment 52064 [details] /var/log/XFree86.0.log
Created attachment 52065 [details] /etc/X11/XF86Config
This problem went away with XFree86-4.2.0-6.52 (RH 7.2.93).