KGlobalSettings: EffectFadeMenu and EffectFadeTooltip obsolete?

[Peter Penz]

On Tuesday, 16. December 2008 12:13:45 Peter Penz wrote:
> 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.

I've just committed the patch.

>
> Peter
>
> > Thanks,
> > Peter