karm ignores configured idle-time

[Pi-Phi]

Binary package hint: karm

since some days (auto-updates) karm ignores my settings about idle-time (10min) and came up with the usual warning message after less than a minute.
As I use the german layout I don't know the exact english words in the configurationmenu.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
AMD64 KDE3 and all(?) updates

apt-cache policy karm
karm:
  Installiert:4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2
  Mögliche Pakete:4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Is reproducible; karm doesn't respect the setting for idle time.

[^rooker (rooker)]

Confirmed here on Kubuntu Hardy 32bit, too
I first thought it might be an issue due to my dual-screen setup.

[Michael Ekoka (verysimple)]

kubuntu hardy 32bit running on an amd 64. This annoying bug is still going.

[Premil (premek-paska)]

I hit this issue also on Gentoo (and this was the only bug-report I've googled out), and I've discovered the cause and a workaround...

The problem is that internal representation of the time in idle time detector has been changed from minutes to seconds, and the idle-time setting started to be wrongly treated as time in seconds not in minutes. So to set 10 min idle time, you need to enter 600 minutes :-)

An untested patch is attached (I don't have compilation prerequisites).

Enjoy!-)

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!