[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#867888: Bug#867888: xfce4-terminal: color picker for _some_ settings is useless

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Mon Jul 10 10:55:18 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 12:35 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Package: xfce4-terminal
> Version: 0.8.5.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi!
> Since the gtk2->gtk3 downgrade (hard to call this otherwise...), there's a
> problem
> with the color picker used on Preferences|Colours.
> 
> Actually, there are _two_ color pickers used:
> * the one for "Palette" is drastically less functional than the one in gtk2,
>   but at least it works

Indeed. I actually didn't even notice (I never change colors :)

> * the one for the remaining settings (text colour, cursor, selection, ...)
>   can't be used to view or edit the current value
> 
> With the second picker, if you want to only overwrite the colour, you can do
> so (even if in a convoluted way): you select what you want to change, click
> "custom +", it only then calls the first picker, where you can input or
> click on the value.
> 
> But if you want to read and/or adjust the setting, I haven't found a way to
> do so.  There's a blue field with a check mark but it doesn't appear to do
> anything.  Clicking that "custom +" doesn't use the old value either.

Actually you can right click on the color and select “customize” (see http://i
.imgur.com/5YT1tHL.png)
> 
> Since you already have a color picker that sort-of works, could you please
> bind the picker used for palette for other color settings as well?

I'll point upstream to this bug and see what they say.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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