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FineFindus / eyedropper

Pick and format colors
https://apps.gnome.org/Eyedropper
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Option to Auto-Select "Pick a Color" when Launching the Application #140

Closed jaspersn closed 3 months ago

jaspersn commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I use a shortcut to launch the program, and wish there was a way for the application to automatically start choosing a color on startup, instead of having to choose "Pick a Color" every time.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like an option to "Pick a new Color" when the application is launched, without the need to click the "Pick a Color" button first.

Describe alternatives you've considered Having the option as an application preference under general or just have a launch option via CLI would be helpful. I can see it making more sense as a launch option, as this feature may become annoying when launching the app graphically.

Additional context Allowing a custom shortcut for "Pick a new Color" may also help, as then I can "sync" it up with my shortcut for launching the app: Shift+Super+C.

FineFindus commented 3 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion. There is already both a shortcut for picking a color (CTRL+P) and a temporary CLI option --pick-color which starts the color picking process immediately on application startup.

jaspersn commented 3 months ago

Thank you for the quick reply. I saw mention of the --pick-color launch option in another issue but it was not obvious to me it was implemented, my apologies. Im aware of the Ctrl+P shortcut, but was hoping for the ability to customize this shortcut.

FineFindus commented 3 months ago

Im aware of the Ctrl+P shortcut, but was hoping for the ability to customize this shortcut.

GTK's default configuration is not set up for this. While it is possible to implement user-configurable shortcuts, I don't think it's worth implementing here, considering the increased code complexity and maintenance burden (the application already gets not enough :)).