Review Request 118898: KGamma: Apply user setting at login/startup

[Sebastian Kügler]

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I think there's a couple of problems with this approach:

- This slows down startup for everybody, not just those who changed the setting. I'm not super-familiar with this, but isn't kcminit for this use-case?
- Changing startup procedure this late in the game (Plasma 4.x has been on LTS for almost a year, feature frozen for much longer)
- This particular KCM is dead in Plasma 5 (not really a reason to not "fix it" in 4.x, but the feature will be lost again

Again, not super-privvy of the whole picture, but isn't color correction the correct solution here?

- Sebastian Kügler


On June 23, 2014, 1:06 p.m., Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
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> (Updated June 23, 2014, 1:06 p.m.)
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> Review request for kde-workspace, Plasma and Marcel Wiesweg.
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> Bugs: 218668
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218668
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> Repository: kgamma
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> Description
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> KGamma's saved user settings are not applied on startup/login. The user has to enter the KCM to apply them.
> This makes it rather useless, as not even saving the settings system-wide really works any more. (this requires an xorg.conf which normally doesn't exist nowadays)
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> This patch factors out the function init_kgamma() into its own source file (init_kgamma.cpp), adds a small executable (applykgammasettings) that just applies those settings by calling that function, and installs applykgammasettings.desktop to ${AUTOSTART_INSTALL_DIR} that runs applykgammasettings on login.
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> PS: As there seems to be no kgamma group and this is desktop-related, I decided to add the kde-workspace and plasma groups for review. I hope that's ok... ;)
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> Diffs
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>   kcmkgamma/CMakeLists.txt 3980023 
>   kcmkgamma/applykgammasettings.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   kcmkgamma/applykgammasettings.desktop PRE-CREATION 
>   kcmkgamma/init_kgamma.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   kcmkgamma/kgamma.cpp 890ba99 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118898/diff/
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> Testing
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> Set a gamma value in the KGamma KCM, logout/login (or reboot), Gamma value 
> gets set correctly.
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> If there's no kgammarc file (or it contains no actual gamma settings), the Gamma value is not changed. It stays at what is configured for X (or its default). 
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> Thanks,
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> Wolfgang Bauer
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