From 9547edda86b7ddd442ac8d462114dbca1ef6ef81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nexoniarz <gamesfrank90@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 20:47:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix slow Plasma popups; drop blueman; GPU video decoding env
 for Firefox

Bouncing Popups KWin effect stacked on Plasma's own popup animations and
forced blur; Darkly Plasma theme (18 files) made every missing SVG fall
back through an uncached search of ~89 XDG_DATA_DIRS. Disable the effect,
default to Breeze Dark. Set LIBVA/NVD/MOZ env vars for nvidia-vaapi-driver.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 modules/desktop.nix  | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 modules/hardware.nix | 13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/desktop.nix b/modules/desktop.nix
index 86a237c..387ff37 100644
--- a/modules/desktop.nix
+++ b/modules/desktop.nix
@@ -33,6 +33,29 @@
     pkgs.bibata-cursors
   ];
 
+  # The third-party "Bouncing Popups" KWin effect (~/.local/share/kwin/effects)
+  # stacks on top of Plasma's own slidingpopups/fadingpopups and forces blur
+  # on every popup and the panel, making applet popups and panel settings
+  # open sluggishly. [$i] locks the key so ~/.config/kwinrc can't re-enable it.
+  environment.etc."xdg/kwinrc".text = ''
+    [Plugins]
+    bouncingPopupsEnabled[$i]=false
+  '';
+
+  # Breeze Dark as the default Plasma (panel/popup) theme. Avoid sparse
+  # third-party themes like "Darkly" (18 files): every SVG they lack falls
+  # back via an uncached search of all ~89 XDG_DATA_DIRS, which made applet
+  # popups and panel settings take 2-6 s to open. Not locked, so the theme
+  # can still be changed in System Settings.
+  environment.etc."xdg/plasmarc".text = ''
+    [Theme]
+    name=breeze-dark
+  '';
+
+  environment.extraInit = ''
+    export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$XDG_DATA_DIRS:${pkgs.gtk3}/share/gsettings-schemas/${pkgs.gtk3.name}"
+  '';
+
   fonts.packages = with pkgs; [
     corefonts
     dejavu_fonts
diff --git a/modules/hardware.nix b/modules/hardware.nix
index 63332b5..78caad3 100644
--- a/modules/hardware.nix
+++ b/modules/hardware.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,17 @@
     package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.stable;
   };
 
+  # Hardware video decoding in Firefox via nvidia-vaapi-driver (installed by
+  # hardware.nvidia.videoAcceleration). libva needs the driver named
+  # explicitly; the "direct" backend is the working one on driver 525+.
+  # Firefox's decoder (RDD) sandbox blocks the driver, so it's disabled:
+  # trade-off accepted for GPU decode. Prefs live in the profile's user.js.
+  environment.sessionVariables = {
+    LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME = "nvidia";
+    NVD_BACKEND = "direct";
+    MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX = "1";
+  };
+
   hardware.opentabletdriver.enable = true;
   hardware.uinput.enable = true;
   boot.kernelModules = [ "uinput" ];
@@ -32,7 +43,7 @@
       };
     };
   };
-  services.blueman.enable = true;
+  # Plasma ships its own Bluetooth UI (Bluedevil); blueman just duplicated it.
 
   boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''
     # DualSense/PS4 pads pair over Bluetooth then drop instantly; broken