Comment 11 for bug 48509

I'm disappointed that this isn't fixed in 3.5.5 as well, as it is quite frustrating to have no control over a user setting. Especially one that affects the lifetime of monitors and real world energy use. Some people actually care about the world's climate!

The problem seems to be that the setting is saved to ~/.kde/share/config/displayconfigrc, but the setting isn't read when starting KDE, instead the default value of 5 hours is used.

Strangely, the first time a user logs in, the time shown in the display settings is 45 minutes.

In office environments, sysadmins are reluctant to install unsupported new versions of critical software (like KDE 3.5.6) or follow the releases when they come out. Fixing this as an update to the stable releases still in support is therefore indicated!

Please, pretty please, fix this in edgy's base updates!

/Simon