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

[Wolfgang Bauer]

> On June 24, 2014, 12:41 a.m., Christoph Feck wrote:
> > Not sure why you added Marcel to the list of reviewers...
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> > Anyway, if the current patch is all that is needed to restore sanity as in KDE 3, the I am all for getting it fixed.
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> Christoph Feck wrote:
>     (And if the same issue was the cause for the KRandR regression, then I will eat my hat).

> Not sure why you added Marcel to the list of reviewers...
Because he is listed as "KDE Project Manager" at https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdegraphics/kgamma .

> Anyway, if the current patch is all that is needed to restore sanity as in KDE 3, the I am all for getting it fixed.
It works fine here...

> (And if the same issue was the cause for the KRandR regression, then I will eat my hat).
I don't think so. KRandR didn't use kcminit at all as far as I can see by having a quick glance at the source code.
Instead it contains a script "krandrstartup" to apply the config, which is (still) sourced by startkde.


- Wolfgang


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On June 23, 2014, 7:01 p.m., Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
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> (Updated June 23, 2014, 7:01 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 uses kcminit to apply these settings again on login. Apparently this has been forgotten when moving/porting kgamma to KDE4.
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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/kgamma.cpp 890ba99 
>   kcmkgamma/kgamma.desktop 3d87513 
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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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