Bug 372921

Summary: Add magnifier while picking a color
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Víctor <vmorenomarin>
Component: Color Picker widgetAssignee: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: bilal.a.haroon, kde, luisbocanegra17b, mgraesslin, nate, vmorenomarin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.2.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: Zoom of the pixels in a region near of the color to choose.

Description Víctor 2016-11-25 16:15:20 UTC
Created attachment 102439 [details]
Zoom of the pixels in a region near of the color to choose.

Hi: 

Is it possible add a tool for zoom a region near to the color to pick? So, will be more accuracy the choose of a pixel in particular. Could be an optional tool in the settings of the widget. 

In the attached pic I show the feature: similar to the develop options on Firefox.
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-11-25 16:22:05 UTC
Just today I thought the same :)

The cursor isn't very accurate, unfortunately. On Wayland at least you'll be able to move the cursor around pixel-precisely with the keyboard.

@Martin: Could something like this be done? We have this "zoom" effect which shows a window around the cursor. Can this be enabled programmatically (needs a flag to disable anti-aliasing, though), or added to the Wayland color picker mode?
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2016-11-25 18:06:46 UTC
As on Wayland color picking is done through an effect we can do something like a magnifier. But I'm not sure whether it's a good solution.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-08-01 19:47:04 UTC
*** Bug 444209 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***