I use KDE Plasma, and much prefer the KDE color picker over the GTK one that Firefox uses, with input type=color.

I know that I can set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 to make Firefox use the native file picker, is there a way to make it use the native color picker as well?

I know there probably isn’t a way, but I figured it’s worth a shot asking.

  • @over_clox
    -34•1 year ago

    Isn’t the purpose of Linux to actually step away from Windows, not copy it practically verbatim from 1993?

    • andrewEnglish
      22•1 year ago

      The purpose of Linux is to be a free and open source OS kernel on top of which free and open source software can provide whatever user experience they want to provide and users are free to pick one.

      • @over_clox
        -22•1 year ago

        But they’re not free to literally copy an existing interface from a big $$$ corporation…

        Again, I use text based input as the main interface. Not RGB. Not HSL. I literally name my colors with text.

        Want human flesh, type “human flesh”, not some unintuitive #RRGGBB crap.

        • @[email protected]
          16•1 year ago

          I’ve read a lot of youre comments trying to understand youre meaning here, but are you trying to say you want to represent all 16 million colors of a 24 bit color?

          And also somehow in a way that not extremely subjective to the user?

          Ngl I’d love to see this as a product, and definitely keep me updated if this software ever has a usable demo

          • @over_clox
            -10•1 year ago

            You are the first person to actually try to understand what I’m getting at and what my project is. Strangely, you described it fairly well…

            As much as I’d like to share my prototype software with you, I’m not sure this is the thread I should share it on.

            • NeshuraEnglish
              8•1 year ago

              #936049

              not sure which universe you live in but that’s brown and not even remotely fleshy. Unless you leave the flesh out to rot for a week or two…

        • @[email protected]
          5•1 year ago

          Windows 11 Desktop is partly a copy from Linux, so why should companies be allowed but free projects not?

          They even introduced ssh into Windows preinstalled.

    • MoxvallixOPEnglish
      19•1 year ago

      No. The purpose of Linux is to provide a free and open source operating system, that can be customised by yourself and the community to your liking.

      I like KDE’s colour picker. It seems I would like the Windows one as well. It’s a good design. Linux doesn’t exist to be contrary, it exists to be a customisable, open experience.

    • IHeartBadCode
      18•1 year ago

      Do you actually use Linux? The purpose of FOSS is to make it whatever you want it to be. It can be a step away, a step towards, a step multiple by the square root of negative one to MS Windows. The entire point is that you get to dictate the path you want to take.

    • AnonTwo
      8•1 year ago

      Only for people who joined Linux because they’re spiteful of Windows?

    • Zorque
      6•1 year ago

      I thought the point of Linux was to have the freedom to do what you want, even if that means aping something from Windows (or Mac, or ChromeOS, or whatever).

      Of course, if your prevailing opinion of Linux is that it be the “anti-Windows”, then making sure nothing resembles it in any way (even if just aesthetically) is your go to.

      • @over_clox
        -5•1 year ago

        aping…

        You mean ripping off the GUI design?

        Can’t even make some other sliders for RGB values? That’s almost an exact clone from 1993 Windows…