Hello Antoine,

On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 16:45 -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> If the systemd service is enabled (and works, see #827098) then a user
> wanting GUI visbility on whatever redshift is doing might naturally
> start the graphical application he/she sees in the menus.
> 

The GUI has been very basic since the beginning. And I haven't seen much
development there. Prior to systemd service too, preferred invocation was
through foreign tools (gnome shell extension, kde plasmoid).

I'll forward the request upstream.

> In this case, both applications get into a heated power struggle over
> the color of the monitor, obviously neither winning.
> 
> It would be nice if gtk-redshift:
> 
>  1. would notice his own partner running
> 
>  2. abort with a friendly error message
> 
>  3. eventually, instead of aborting, communicate with the running
>     process and report information, allow toggling the status and so
>     on
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