GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 118550
inclusion of a colour picker application
Last modified: 2005-08-25 05:12:17 UTC
Once upon a time gnome had a color picker applet (in the Accessories Menu). This was a great inclusion and I sorely missed it. Often I need to find out a color from a document on the desktop and being able to open a applet from the menu was much quicker than having to open the preferences for a panel, then navigate through to the color picker, only to have to cancel all changes made after getting the rgb value. Is there any chance of including this tool again?
I don't think an applet would be that useful, maybe an application. I'll refile this with gnome-utils to see what they think of the idea.
I'm not sure this kind of program is really useful... I would need some convincing arguments ;-)
*** Bug 161691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
What you are looking for is gcolor2 (http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/).
Hmmm, is gcolor2 now a part of gnome-utils? Or is it still a third party application. I'm sure I can find third party applications all over the place that will run nicely with Gnome, but I think it needs to be a part of Gnome, and not just another application you can grab. Given how most of the functionality should already be in gnome, I'm not sure that this would add a lot of size, but it would add some useful functionality. It's crazy that, currenly, you have to grab a screenshot of something and then drag it into an application to grab a color, or that you would have to open up the preferences for one of the panels and then use the color picker in there just to find out what a color is. This sort of feature is just as useful as the character map.
gcolor2 is not a part of gnome-utils, but it does exactly what you are asking for. While I agree with you that picking the color is currently difficult (I often use a transparent desktop background and set the background color to match the theme I'm using), this is not something many people need (notice how there's only been one duplicate during the two years this has been open) so having a third party application isn't a bad solution. But I personally don't care either way, so if you feel that strongly about this, feel free to reopen.