On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hallo, > * Chow Loong Jin [Fri, Feb 28 2020, 12:48:51PM]: > > > > why is this package useful/relevant? is it a dependency for another > > > package? do you use it? if there are other packages providing similar > > > functionality, how does it compare? > > > > Sometimes you just need a colour picker to help generate colour hex > > codes for you and sample colours from your screen. > > That is not a complete answer since there is gpick (apt show gpick). Fair enough, let's have another go. > why is this package useful/relevant? It's a simple colour picker that can trivially sample colours from the screen or pick other colours via RGB/HSL/hex code. It's also the currently maintained successor to gcolor2 which was previously removed from Debian for being dead-upstream. > is it a dependency for another package? No > do you use it? Yes > if there are other packages providing similar functionality, how does > it compare? I hadn't known about gpick, but now that you've mentioned it, gcolor3 does seem a lot easier to use. I've been clicking around gpick for the past 5 minutes, and: - I don't how I can input a hex colour that I already have, so that I may tweak it, e.g. to change its luminosity. - I can't figure out how to use the eye dropper tool -- I activated it and clicked on a thing, and I don't see any of the colours in the colour picker swatch getting updated. - I'm just really confused and lost now. > Maybe not easy enough for your purpose? No, gpick seems terribly hard to use for my purpose. And apparently not for three out of three web developers I asked either -- presented with screenshots, they all picked gcolor3. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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