KGlobalSettings: EffectFadeMenu and EffectFadeTooltip obsolete?

[Peter Penz]

On Saturday, 13. December 2008 19:45:50 Peter Penz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when turning on the global effects "EffectFadeMenu" and "EffectFadeTooltip"
> in KGlobalSettings::Private::propagateSettings()
> (kdelibs/kdeui/kernel/kglobalsettings.cpp) by:
>
>     b = cg.readEntry("EffectFadeMenu", false);
>     QApplication::setEffectEnabled( Qt::UI_FadeMenu, b);
>     ...
>     b = cg.readEntry("EffectFadeTooltip", false);
>     QApplication::setEffectEnabled( Qt::UI_FadeTooltip, b);
>
> there are some side effects for drag and drop in KDE (see
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157630 for details - other applications
> are affected too, not only Dolphin).
>
> I've already submitted a bug report to Qt some time ago
> (http://trolltech.com/developer/task-
> tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=207192), but I was wondering whether
> those effects are obsolete in KDE 4 and hence should be ignored.
>
> It seems there is no GUI available anymore to turn on/off those settings,
> so only users who migrated the settings from KDE 3 seems to be affected.
>
> Would it be OK to submit a patch for KGlobalSettings to ignore those old
> settings? Or do I miss here something?

I'd commit the attached patch on Monday the 22nd of December if there are no 
objections.

Peter

>
> Thanks,
> Peter

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