Bug 222849

Summary: kcolorchooser must disable Desktop Effects like "Dim Inactive" when selecting Color picker
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Murz <MurzNN>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: kdelibs-bugs, kwin-bugs-null, percy.camilo.ta, yofel
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Murz 2010-01-15 15:01:19 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I have using KDE 4 and "Dim Inactive" effect in Desktop Effects (It is gray out inactive windows).
And very often I need to get a color from some window. When I starting kcolorchooser, all other windows goes gray out. And when I selecting Color picker and try to get the color, I didn't get the color exactly like in window, I get the grayed out equivalent!
I think that kcolorchooser must disable "Dim Inactive" effect when pressing color picker button.

Dim Inactive effect helps me to detect active window on my big display and I use it very well all the time.
But for correctly get the color from the screen I need to do a long list of actions:
1. open system settings
2. disable effect "Dim Inactive"
3. switch to kcolorchooser
4. get the correct color
5. go back to system settings
6.enable "Dim Inactive" back
Comment 1 Murz 2010-01-15 15:01:32 UTC 
Or another variant is to add "suspend composing/resume composing" button into kcolorchooser window.
Comment 2 Philip Muškovac 2010-01-15 19:13:30 UTC 
This is indeed annoying.

I'm using KDE 4.4 RC1
Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2010-01-15 19:50:50 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172921 ***