[opensuse] kde4-4.5.5 kcolorchooser - howto stop it from dimming display so I can 'choose' a color from the screen?
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?
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?
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:42:21 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
This is somewhat comical behavior. When you start kcolorchooser, the screen is dimmed
Not here.
KDE 4.5.5 release 1 and Intel graphics.
* Rajko M. rmatov101@charter.net [02-04-11 21:31]:
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:42:21 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
This is somewhat comical behavior. When you start kcolorchooser, the screen is dimmed
Not here.
KDE 4.5.5 release 1 and Intel graphics.
nor here w/KDE 4.6.00 release 375 and nvidia 7300gs
On Saturday 05 Feb 2011 05:43:51 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
- Rajko M. rmatov101@charter.net [02-04-11 21:31]:
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:42:21 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
This is somewhat comical behavior. When you start kcolorchooser, the
screen is dimmed
Not here.
KDE 4.5.5 release 1 and Intel graphics.
nor here w/KDE 4.6.00 release 375 and nvidia 7300gs
I can reproduce this by enabling the 'Dim Inactive' desktop effect.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253719
Will
On Saturday, February 05, 2011 07:10:54 am Will Stephenson wrote: ...
I can reproduce this by enabling the 'Dim Inactive' desktop effect.
The bug is about configurability of application windows, where author wants ability to override general settings for "Dim Inactive", just as it is possible for many other features.
For use case described in bug report it is possible to prevent dim (in KDE 4.5.5) when you declare some window as "Keep above others" and "Apply effect to keep-above windows" is not checked in settings for "Dim Inactive".
The problem David has is that KColourChooser should tell Kwin to turn off "Dim Inactive" for whole desktop as long as it is running. I guess that is possible, but I have no idea how much code has to be changed.
He can declare window that he wants to pick colors from, as "Keep above others" and it will not be dimmed. If his usage of KColourChooser is sporadic, as mine, this should work for him, otherwise Dim Inactive is not desktop effect he wants (for now).
Will
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