Bug 222849 - kcolorchooser must disable Desktop Effects like "Dim Inactive" when selecting Color picker
Summary: kcolorchooser must disable Desktop Effects like "Dim Inactive" when selecting...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172921
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
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Reported: 2010-01-15 15:01 UTC by Murz
Modified: 2010-01-15 19:50 UTC (History)
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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 ***