maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 280638] x11-wm/plasma6-kwin linuxism breaks spectacle screenshots

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Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla at FreeBSD.org> has asked freebsd-kde (group)
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Bug 280638: x11-wm/plasma6-kwin linuxism breaks spectacle screenshots
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280638



--- Description ---
x11-wm/plasma6-kwin wayland in spectacle  you get always a not athorized to
take screenshots, because of this check
https://github.com/KDE/kwin/blob/1240ac1dfe4569f3bb5d5d182ae3c393dc2c5bd5/src/p
lugins/screenshot/screenshotdbusinterface2.cpp#L331-L354

The linux specific code is here: 
https://github.com/KDE/kwin/blob/1240ac1dfe4569f3bb5d5d182ae3c393dc2c5bd5/src/u
tils/serviceutils.h#L67

The attached patch uses sysctl to get the executableName

You also need to workaorund https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-126300 by
setting TZ explicitly, otherwise spectacle crashed on saving the taken snapshot
to a file..


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