Bug 443343

Summary:	KDE3 programs aren't inheriting KDE4 colors
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix>
Component:	kdebase-workspace	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	fedora, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, than, tuxbrewr
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Description Kelly Miller 2008-04-20 21:53:17 UTC

I've noticed while running KDE4 that KDE3 programs don't seem to inherit colors
properly (even if "apply to non-KDE4 programs" is clicked), so I'm going to drop
a hint from looking into the config files:

KDE4 stores colors under custom headers in the kdeglobals file.  KDE3 also
stored colors in kdeglobals, but under the [General] header. KDE4's color
adjuster does not write colors in [General] - I suspect that is why KDE3
programs don't inherit colors properly.

In short, the KDE4 color editor should be patched to write certain colors to the
[General] section of kdeglobals along with how it currently writes colors to
kdeglobals.  I've already tested this by editing the file manually, and
confirmed that there is no conflict. I'll give writing a patch myself a shot,
but I'm not entirely familiar with the inner workings of kdebase.

This is a Fedora bug, not a KDE bug, because this results from the specific way
Fedora is packaging KDE4 (both using the same user directory).

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2008-04-20 21:57:14 UTC

KDE 4 simply uses different color settings than KDE 3.

If you want to set your KDE 3 colors, install kdebase3 and run:
kcmshell colors

> This is a Fedora bug, not a KDE bug, because this results from the specific
> way Fedora is packaging KDE4 (both using the same user directory).

If we were using different configuration directories, then _nothing_ would get 
inherited, so it would only make things worse.

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2008-04-20 22:15:10 UTC

To sum up, I consider this a shortcoming in upstream KDE, I'm not sure I'd go 
as far as calling it a bug though.

Comment 3 Steven M. Parrish 2008-04-20 22:41:02 UTC

Did a search of bugs.kde.org and could find no bug/feature requests matching
this report.  Please submit upstream and add submission info to this report.

Comment 4 Kelly Miller 2008-04-21 00:04:47 UTC

Okay, I did so.  The upstream bug report is here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161098

Comment 5 Kevin Kofler 2008-04-21 00:26:25 UTC

Thanks, we will continue to track this upstream. (I've added myself and the 3 
other KDE maintainers to the CC list for the upstream bug report.)