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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:22:24 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
>       This is somewhat comical behavior. When you start kcolorchooser, the
> screen is dimmed (the same way it gets dimmed when you choose shutdown)
> making it impossible to 'choose' a color from the screen with
> kcolorchooser. I know this is probably a setting somewhere that causes
> this to happen. None of the other apps dim the screen when I launch them.
>
>       Thus the irony -- "kde4 kcolorchooser can't choose a color from the
> screen" because it dimmed the darn thing when it launched.
>
>       Where is the mysterious setting that will fix this?

Desktop Effects -> Dialog Parent

        Seems like a bug that kcolorchooser would consider the entire desktop 
its 
parent. Shouldn't kcolorchooser be excluded from this behavior? IIRC Dialog 
Parent is the default, or at least, I have no recall of setting it.

        What say the devs on this?


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