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thezbyg / gpick

Advanced color picker written in C++ using GTK+ toolkit
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Very difficult to use with focus-follows-mouse #116

Open thezbyg opened 9 years ago

thezbyg commented 9 years ago

Original issue 116 created by thezbyg on 2014-05-02T08:12:52.000Z:

I've tried different ways of using gpick, and it seems very difficult to use when the window manager is configured for focus follow mouse. The default spacebar selection does not work (because the focus has left gpick).

When I try to use the color picker button, I get the zoom window, and when I click somewhere, the middle color takes the color. But when I move my mouse, it changes.

The only way I figured out to select a color is to click the picker button, click on the color I want, and press space before moving my mouse cursor. This is so difficult that I've reverted back to taking screenshots and opening them in Gimp. The picker should pick the color I click on.

I'm using Gpick 0.2.5 on Linux Mint 16.

thezbyg commented 9 years ago

Comment #1 originally posted by thezbyg on 2014-05-05T09:32:04.000Z:

Please enable the "Add to palette" checkbox in the "Edit -> Preferences... -> Picker -> Floating picker click behavior" option section. With this option enabled, colors can be added to the palette without using any keyboard keys: right click on the center color, and left click anywhere on the screen, or drag the center color to the desired screen location.

thezbyg commented 9 years ago

Comment #2 originally posted by thezbyg on 2014-05-05T09:42:36.000Z:

Thanks, with that setting it's possible to use the picker. It was far from obvious what setting should be changed to be able to use it.

It would be nice to have a "Focus follows mouse" mode in GPick. For example, it would be good that the window preview would update always when the window (or any part of it) is visible, not only when the window is focused.

The system tray applet is useful even in this case (though personally the drag-drop functionality seems a bit strange compared to click-click).

DavidGriffith commented 7 years ago

This is rather convoluted. I would very much like to see behavior like what used to be in Gnome 2, which was turn the pointer into an eyedropper which is then used to probe for colors.