https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511007
--- Comment #2 from Błażej Szczygieł <[email protected]> --- Let me explain. Use cases: User turns on night light (because it's night or just prefers warm colors most of the time) and picks a color from the application (user doesn't see the color correctly at the moment, user but trusts the application that it picks it correctly): - user wants to put picked color in another application as it's color (user doesn't have to see it correctly at this moment, it just trusts the picker is doing the job correctly); when user turns off the night light, user will notice that color differs between source and target (wrong!) - user wants to send picked color to somebody and user trusts the picker is picking the correct color, user doesn't know that they send different color (wrong!) - user wants to "google" about picked color and read description about the color, so the color must be the real color as in source application Similar for ICC profiles: When user calibrates monitor and use ICC profile to see colors correctly, the picked color should not be changed by applying the ICC profile there. User will pick different color from the same application depends which monitor is connected? I think it's errornous. For example: I like color of the background in this application, it's e.g. #123456 (but it'll be different). Another user will measure color in the same application and it will also be different. In this case you can't know the exact color of the application or pixel value in photo (you have to use photo editor for this instead of simple color picker + user doesn't know that picker picks different color). Picked color from kwin's color picker will differ than using built-in color picker e.g. in Krita, this will also be confusing. > matching what you actually see Looks like picked color is not what I actually see, because it doesn't pick color with all graphics operations applied (I guess it doesn't respect gamma), so picked color is incorrect. If the picked color would be correct (with all graphics operations), then the option somewhere in settings to select the behavior maybe will be nice-to-have. Also screenshots and screencasts are fixed, so it's too much inconsistent. --- Additonal info: Color blindness options are also affected (including screenshots and screencasts even in 6.5.0). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
