Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: GCC-4.2.4 OS: Linux No matter where of what I click on, the color-picker applet always displays the #003039 color.
Confirmed here. It also happens with color picker from Desktop Configuration dialog but NOT from KColorChooser (Cedric please confirm for the background color picker from "Desktop Settings") so I think it is plasma-related. Cedric: what video driver?
It's the Nvidia video driver. And yes, I confirm the background color pickers problem. Also, I don't think this problem is related to the video driver since it used to work a few monthes ago.
this is do to argb visuals screwing up the ability to grab random pixel values from screen. it isn't a plasma bug but an upstream problem (haven't tracked it down to whether it's Qt or x.org yet, but it's not plasma, libplasma or the colour chooser plasmoid)
I agree it is a low-level bug, but I can workaround it (hopefully).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159401 ***