Bug: 3.1.1 performance on linux/KDE is terrible

[JAZ-013]

Describe the bug

The UI performance on linux is very bad. I'm running latest KDE 6.8 with Plasma 6.2.3. Panels fading in and out at a framerate of like 1 frame per second and take much longer than they should to open and close. The UI responsiveness is terrible and it is incredibly painful to use causing misclicks and panel opening/closing is very laggy. UX is quite frankly, unusable for me. :(

Steps to reproduce

Launch Surrealist on Linux/KDE and do anything that opens a right panel. The left nav panel, while not smooth, is not as bad and still usable. Most of the slow down comes when using the right panel UI.

Expected behaviour

On 3.0.8 the UX was smooth and pleasant. I have downgraded to 3.0.8 for now too as that version works fine and 3.1.x is quite unusable.

Surrealist Environment

Version: 3.1.1
Flags: feature_flags: false, query_view: true, explorer_view: true, graphql_view: true, designer_view: true, auth_view: true, functions_view: true, models_view: true, apidocs_view: true, cloud_view: true, themes: true, syntax_themes: false, newsfeed: true, database_version_check: true, highlight_tool: false, legacy_serve: false, cloud_endpoints: production, cloud_access: false, cloud_killswitch: true, changelog: auto

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[JAZ-013]

Just tested this again on 3.1.4 and UI performance is still poor. Is someone looking into this at all? Thanks.

[macjuul]

Hey! Could you provide more information about which panels are causing performance degradation?

[JAZ-013]

Hey! Could you provide more information about which panels are causing performance degradation?

So it appears to be any of the right side panels. The one I use often and caused me the most frustration was the Table Designer. It lags so bad on my computer that I can't really use it. Clicks can take seconds for things to react. I'm still using 3.0.8 for now which runs fine.

[macjuul]

Do you experience similar performance issues in the web version?

[JAZ-013]

Do you experience similar performance issues in the web version?

I do not. Web version performance is as expected.

[cr1cr1]

Have the same issue with the desktop app but not the web one.

Doing some digging, found: tauri-apps/tauri#7021

Setting various env vars like WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 or WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 did not help.

CachyOS, KDE Plasma 6, Wayland, NVIDIA GPU, latest everything.

[alexn-s]

i am experiencing the same on arch with gnome and qtile using x11 and v3.1.x

i will try using 3.0.8 version. the web version also works fine for (without any lags at all)

[cr1cr1]

Issue persists with 3.2.1

Running under wayland, animations are slow, there is a lot of stuttering and visual tearing.

Running GDK_BACKEND=x11 surrealist is better, no more tearing, still feels sluggish and more importantly, GPU consumption spikes with just moving the mouse over the GUI elements of the app.