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 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, 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

Feel free to open an issue or PR in the repo for any question or idea.

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