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.
Heaven forbid someone put hue on x axis and saturation on y axis and have a separate slider for value and allow you to manually input and allows you to save your favourites in a color picker they made.
Please read my other comments. I put a literal text axis on my color picker. You know, like you want red, you type “red”…
Don’t none of the rest of them do that.
Prove me wrong.
Which red? The word “red” represents a big range of colors.
Yes, there are descriptive words as well, like fire red, flesh red, plant red…
You think I wouldn’t put some thought into some common sense words?
oh god what a nightmare.
How do you plan to deal with translations? Cause not every descriptive word is translatable, some languages have words to refer to two shades, while another has only one word and both shades are culturally perceived as a single shade.
Honestly I don’t know exactly how I would deal with that in the long run. I really appreciate you for asking though.
I’ve done research into this very topic, and have learned that some languages do not include a word for ‘pink’, but rather a descriptive form for ‘light red’. I’m sure there are numerous other examples of translation issues.
Unfortunately I am not a multilingual programmer, so honestly I would need some help trying to make it work ideally with other languages.
I do thank you for asking this very question, as it indeed is a complication I would need help with… ☹️
You are being rather ambiguous with how your program works, which I understand. But if the primary way of selecting colors is through words then that is big issue that I feel can’t be made to work outside of English.
If the selection is more “traditional”, like a color wheel or whatnot, and the text is just a description (I think coolors does this) then it might be translatable.
Like, the issue with “pink” being “light red” is that you can’t actually select pink and a lighter shade of red if the selection is through text. If the selection isn’t text based then you can just have two colors being “light red” cause it is true anyway
Text works to select or mix a color (I have a totally different definition of ‘color’ in my system). One ‘color’ is an entire measured gradient of colors.
I use terms like ‘solid color’ and ‘faded color’. Every other system uses solid color technology, but I use faded color technology in combination with solid colors.
Look underneath you, look at the shadow on your floor/carpet. Does that shadow change the color, or does that shadow change the illumination of the same color?
What is a color?
Isn’t that just a semitransparent layer on top?
I really do appreciate your questions and comments, and it boggles my mind to try to explain it in a sensible way…
The color wheel may as well only be useful for scientists, who are trying to measure the spectrum of light coming in. Awesome! 👍
But that’s not intuitive for artists and painters and the like. The rainbow color wheel, as scientific as it may be, does not represent how artists actually see the world.
Sure we see the world with colors, but we primarily see the world with brightness levels. If you see a face, you’re not gonna see much of a change in hue, you’re gonna see variations in brightness of the same hue.
TL;DR - Color is more than what Crayola created, it’s not a solid, it’s a faded fluid. And there’s a math to it…
I’m not exactly sure if I follow. Like, isn’t brightness already slider when using HSV? Meaning you can just change the brightness without changing Hue or Saturation.
Edit: HSL, not HSV