Bug 456418

Summary: Color picker applet doesn't pick a color
Product: [Plasma] kdeplasma-addons Reporter: ]\/[ ]\/[ ]_ 1357 <mmarreroleyva>
Component: Color PickerAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: REOPENED ---    
Severity: normal CC: davestechshop, kde, kde, krazykath, me, nate, sommerluk, suor.web
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.25.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Bug of colour picker
Bug of colour picker & showing Colour Dialogue

Description ]\/[ ]\/[ ]_ 1357 2022-07-06 21:11:34 UTC
Color picker applet doesn't pick a color. When added for first time, only gets black color. If history is cleared, doesn't pick any color.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use color picker.

OBSERVED RESULT
No color is picked.

EXPECTED RESULT
Clicked color is picked.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 5.25
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5
Kernel Version: 5.13.0-51-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-07-13 17:57:45 UTC
What exactly do you mean by "Use color picker."? Use it how? What *specifically* are you doing that isn't working?
Comment 2 Kath 2022-07-14 12:59:31 UTC
Created attachment 150615 [details]
Bug of colour picker
Comment 3 Kath 2022-07-14 13:00:06 UTC
Created attachment 150616 [details]
Bug of colour picker & showing Colour Dialogue
Comment 4 Kath 2022-07-14 13:01:22 UTC
I have faced this bug too, let me see if I can provide more information

The colour picker widget does not select any colours if you use the button. At first it will display pure black (#000000) in the colour history, and when you pick a colour via the button, instead of picking the colour where you click it will place "#000000" into your clipboard and keep the existing black in history.
If you clear history, this black colour will go away, but no further colours will be picked correctly.

Interestingly, Right click > Open Colour Dialogue, and using "Pick Screen Color" will work correctly. I have demonstrated this as best as I can in a videos I have attached

colourpicker_bug_1 shows the interaction with the black
colourpicker_bug_2 shows the Colour Dialogue too


Operating System: Fedora Linux 36
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

I have tried this in Wayland:
- Button picking, still broken as described above
- Colour Dialogue > "Pick Screen Color" Does not work. The "Cursor at X, Y" does not update as I move my mouse over the screen. It will only update while I move it on the Colour Dialogue window. It does not select a colour correctly

If there is anything further you need from me, please do say and I will do my best to help. This is my first time reporting kde bugs so I'm happy to learn more.
Comment 5 MountainX 2022-07-15 18:39:20 UTC
I am experiencing this issue on Arch Linux KDE on multiple devices (desktops and laptops). Happens with nvidia propriety driver on desktop and Intel graphics on laptop. All Arch systems are fully updated.
Comment 6 Antonio Rojas 2022-07-15 18:45:50 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 454974 ***
Comment 7 MountainX 2022-09-21 21:53:47 UTC
(In reply to Antonio Rojas from comment #6)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 454974 ***

Bug 454974 reports that the result is "returns black". This bug appears to be different and not a duplicate of 454974. Furthermore, this bug is not resolved as of plasmashell 5.25.4 while 454974 was marked as fixed in 5.24.7.
Comment 8 Alexander Schepanovski 2022-10-05 13:20:12 UTC
Same in Manjaro. Just stopped working suddenly.