color-picker

Simple color picker for GNOME Shell.

春水碧于天，画船听雨眠。 —— 韦庄《菩萨蛮》

Installation

Manual

The latest and supported version should only work on the most current stable version of GNOME Shell.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tuberry/color-picker.git && cd color-picker
meson setup build && meson install -C build
# meson setup build -Dtarget=system && meson install -C build # system-wide, default --prefix=/usr/local

For older versions (< 44), it's recommended to install via:

E.G.O

Features

DBus

The DBus interface returns the same result as XDG Desktop Screenshot Portal required:

gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/ColorPicker --method org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.ColorPicker.Pick

Contributions

Any contribution is welcome.

Ideas

For any question or idea, feel free to open an issue or PR in the repo.

Translations

To update the po file from sources:

bash ./cli/update-po.sh [your_lang_code] # like zh_CN, default to $LANG

Developments

To install GJS TypeScript type definitions:

npm install @girs/gnome-shell --save-dev

Acknowledgements

• PowerToys: the idea of custom color formats