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als RSS Feed abonnieren📚 I want to vent about the GTK3 color picker for a moment.
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That thing is an absolute piece of shit! Thankfully I don't have to use it often, but every time I have to it infuriates me. I just had to adjust the editor/syntax colors in Eclipse and if it wouldn't have been for the MATE color selector that task would have been impossible (the user experience of having to use an extra application for color picking from which you can copy colors from is also rather bad, I might say).
- No screen-picking anymore (thanks to Wayland or touchscreens, I guess).
- No setting of RGB values anymore.
- No setting of HSL values anymore (to be fair, I never used that, or maybe I did once, not sure).
- Choosing a custom color now takes one click more.
- Once you've clicked "Custom", there's no going back to the color selector.
- Choosing a color and then clicking "Custom" does not set your chosen color, instead you get some random-ass red.
- Choosing a color does color the whole box with the selection color, you're not seeing what color the color is you have currently selected.
- The available custom colors selection feels random.
- The available custom colors behave random (At what point is a custom color added exactly? What order do these have?)
- You'd like to know the Hex/RGB values of the pre-defined/custom color you've selected? Too bad.
Of course one could now say "you can always submit a better solution", but critics on this dialog (or any of the GTK3 dialogs) are not new and have been so far met with...well, no improvements. Additionally, something tells me that even if I come up with a better solution (MATE color picker, for example), it would not get merged upstream because it would not fit with the design (it might confuse users by displaying so many numbers). Also, critics on the dialogs seem to have a tendency to fall on deaf ears (monochrome icons in the file chooser?).
Now before somebody says "Qt for the win!", the Qt color picker sucks as bad as the Windows one!
I'm done venting, thanks, now I feel slightly better.
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