Live USB session has non-functional menu item "Redshift"

[Tim Starling]

I downloaded the Kubuntu Noble daily ISO test image version 20240328.1 from iso.qa.ubuntu.com and booted it on my laptop. I noticed that clicking "Utilities > Redshift" in the application menu had no obvious effect.

When I (later) ran it from the terminal, it produced the following output (location redacted):

$ redshift-qt
"Using provider `geoclue2'."
"Solar elevations: day above 3.0, night below -6.0"
"Temperatures: 6500K at day, 4500K at night"
"Brightness: 1.00:1.00"
"Gamma (Daytime): 1.000, 1.000, 1.000"
"Gamma (Night): 1.000, 1.000, 1.000"
"Using method `randr'."
"Location: **.** S, ***.** E"
"Color temperature: 6500K"
"Brightness: 1.00"
"Status: Enabled"
"Period: Night"
"Color temperature: 4500K"
"Location: **.** S, ***.** E"

It adjusted the screen color and continued to run, it didn't exit. I eventually noticed that it does make a notification icon. It's a daemon with a spurious or incorrect .desktop file.

The functionality appears to duplicate and conflict with the "night color" feature in plasma-workspace.

If I understand it correctly, the main problem is that kubuntu-desktop recommends redshift-qt, so it gets installed in the ISO. This package should not be installed.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/2060186

[Scarlett Gately Moore (scarlettmoore)]

This has now been removed from the seed. Thanks for testing and your report!
Scarlett