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FineFindus / eyedropper

Pick and format colors
https://apps.gnome.org/Eyedropper
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Feature: Launch hidden with global shortcut #19

Open sals9 opened 2 years ago

sals9 commented 2 years ago

I'm a designer and developer and as far as I know, there is really no eyedropper on the market that does this:

Launch hidden on startup > Ability to pick a color with a shortcut (only picker, no app GUI) > automatically copy to clipboard (with the pre-defined format I would set).

Think of it... This is the fastest, cleanest, and smoothest workflow anyone user can imagine. Actually, I didn't bother to tell developers this before but when I saw this tool, I thought it was almost the complete one I've ever seen. And hope you agree and make it possible.

Big thanks for your great work!

FineFindus commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Something similar is indeed planned. The reason no one has this feature yet, is because the xdg-desktop-portal for shortcuts has only been recently merged and is not implemented yet in most desktops (gnomes tracking issue for it).

If you need a workflow like that right now, the best workaround is using the color-picker extension for gnome shell which does everything, except the custom format.

kra-mo commented 1 year ago

Until then, could it be possible to add a command line option like --pick-only to launch like that? So that in the mean time, we can create a custom global shortcut for it. And then in the future, it would integrate with the portal.

FineFindus commented 1 year ago

Implemented in https://github.com/FineFindus/eyedropper/commit/6a0ae6e92fa762b72313cb6c1ebc994c60fa1717. I don't think this is a particular elegant solution, it's virtually impossible for the user to discover, unless they find this issue.

kra-mo commented 1 year ago

Thanks! I do agree that it's not elegant though.