since the new (nice but kinda unnecessary) redesign, there is no feature to draw on the image using a color FROM the screenshot. Example: You want to remove some text using the background color. Currently there is no eyedropper in the toolbar. Under the pencil -> color you can "pick a color from the screen". but this is not as seemly and seems to not work as intended, before it was easy. Now I actually found out how to do it, but its not easy. Placing the eyedropper in the toolbar would help immensely Specified App: spectacle-23.08.1-1.fc38.x86_64 --- Software --- OS: Fedora Linux 38.20231006.0 (Kinoite) KDE Plasma: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks: 5.110.0 Qt: 5.15.10 Kernel: 6.5.5-200.fc38.x86_64 Compositor: wayland
There was never an eyedropper in the toolbar. There was a drop shaped icon in the toolbar next to the color selector, but that was just an icon, not an eyedropper. The method for picking a color from the image is still the same: Open color picker, click Pick Screen Color. > Currently there is no eyedropper in the toolbar. Under the pencil -> color you can "pick a color from the screen". but this is not as seemly and seems to not work as intended, before it was easy. In what way does it not work as intended? The indended function is to get the color of the spot on the screen where you clicked. Does it not do that? > Placing the eyedropper in the toolbar would help immensely I don't think I'll add a dropper directly to either of the annotation tools or annotation options toolbars. The tools toolbar can't have it because it would be unclear which tool or property of a given tool would get the picked color. The options toolbar could potentially have eye dropper buttons next to each of the related color buttons, but I don't think it's essential enough to put it directly in the toolbar and it would use up a not insignificant amount of additional space (up to 3 extra buttons for stroke, fill and font). However, I could replace the standard color picker dialog with a custom in-window popup that has an eye dropper button closer to the related color button.
I'm afraid this is intentional: no longer is there a global color that you can pick using a globally-accessible eyedropper; color is now per-tool, and so each tool's color picker accordingly has its own eyedropper.