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@gepbird gepbird commented Nov 6, 2024

After the removal of colorpicker, the listed alternatives were not sufficient for me. It was a lightweight "CLI" app in the sense that it didn't open any windows, just printed the color where you clicked next (and with --preview it drew the color you hovered over to the bottom left corner). The mentioned alternatives open a GUI, require an extra button to click to pick colors, doesn't work on minimal systems due to some freedesktop errors, and presumably don't print the color in the terminal, so they can't be used in scripts.

xcolor follows the simplicity of colorpicker so it is a closer alternative and probably other ex-users will want to migrate to that. I don't see much value to deleting the previously mentioned GUI color pickers like eyedropper and gcolor3, so at that point I also added a more featureful GUI alternative called gpick.

cc @Aleksanaa for removing colorpicker in #349744.

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Thanks.

@wegank wegank added the 12.approvals: 1 This PR was reviewed and approved by one person. label Nov 6, 2024
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@Aleksanaa Aleksanaa merged commit 6835d02 into NixOS:master Nov 6, 2024
@gepbird gepbird deleted the colorpicker-alias-update branch November 30, 2024 20:14
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