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bug #20311: [Meta] Colour picker picks black too often (various bugs, workaround needed)

Submitted by:	Andrew Chadwick <achadwick>
Submitted on:	Tue 20 Nov 2012 02:06:10 PM UTC

Severity:	3 - Normal	Priority:	5 - Normal
Status:	Ready For Test	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	Andrew Chadwick <achadwick>	Open/Closed:	Closed
Release:	git master c807c35c7f	Planned Release:	None
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Fri 04 Jan 2013 09:00:35 PM UTC, comment #7: This bug has been closed because it is marked ready-for-test and no further comments have been added in a long while. Since we have not heard otherwise, we assume that the fixes works as intended. If there are problems with the implemented functionality, please file a new issue.	Jon Nordby <jonnor>
Mon 03 Dec 2012 11:53:47 AM UTC, comment #6: Not sure if this is fixed for everything, but it's looking promising. I'm crossing my fingers and relying on the intuition that modern systems are more likely to give us images of either stuff in our own address space (Windows, I guess; OSX too?), or from remote resources the app owns... (X11, fancy gpu widget rendering everywhere) via the GTK calls. The problem with (Debian testing + GNOME + Virtualbox-on-nVidia-G98) from comment #2 has gone away in f38b4b8, which is nice. It seems to have improved the situation with (Ubuntu 12.10 + Unity + Radeon 5770) too: http://forum.intilinux.com/mypaint-help-and-tips/(ubuntu-12-10)-bug-when-i%27m-using-%27pick-color%27-tool/msg11808/#msg11808 If it still happens with other combinations, it may be necessary to introduce a third level of TiledDrawWidget-aware picker code which can just use the internal rendering routines if the GDK window under the cursor is that of a known TDW. I'm trying to avoid having to do that though.	Andrew Chadwick <achadwick>
Sun 02 Dec 2012 08:55:57 AM UTC, comment #5: PS: did I forget to mention that it's great to finally have a solution for this so often-reported bug? Thanks :-)	Martin Renold <martinxyz>
Sun 02 Dec 2012 08:53:01 AM UTC, comment #4: I've never been able to reproduce this bug myself. But testing it on xfce, I think the new behaviour is good. There is a minor regression: I can't press and hold R to pick from an outside window (allthough it works on MyPaint widgets). I don't think it's a real problem, because most people didn't expect this to work anyway, and the color picker button from the dialog can still do it.	Martin Renold <martinxyz>
Sun 02 Dec 2012 01:30:15 AM UTC, comment #3: This might be fixed by the experimental workaround in https://gitorious.org/mypaint/mypaint/commit/f38b4b8a52e7f679853992424b8d5cd985efec9c. I'm not able to reproduce this right now on my system (native Debian testing/Wheezy, under Gnome3 or Xfce4; Virtualbox guest Ubuntu 12.10 under Unity) with Intel video hardware, but it seems plausible . Please could everyone test? If you're bitten by this bug, hopefully you'll find that picking still doesn't work on non-MyPaint windows, but that it's fixed on MyPaint's own canvases, toolbars and buttons. Would be interested if you see the colour picker pick pure #ff0000 red anywhere it shouldn't. I've improved the error checking, and I'm using that colour as a flag for when grabbing areas of the screen to a pixbuf before sampling/averaging fails in a detectable way. It won't be enough to fix this everywhere, but it should allow us to distinguish between fail cases.	Andrew Chadwick <achadwick>
Wed 28 Nov 2012 05:42:01 PM UTC, comment #2: Happens slightly differently under fresh out-of-the-box Gnome3 in Debian testing/Wheezy: picking works, but can only sample the nice dark blue and grey background image from the root window, and nothing else, even when the foreground MyPaint window is pointed at during "R" colour pick or ctrl+button1.	Andrew Chadwick <achadwick>
Thu 22 Nov 2012 04:45:45 AM UTC, comment #1: Triaging: mark confirmed.	Andrew Chadwick <achadwick>
Tue 20 Nov 2012 02:06:10 PM UTC, original submission: The colour picker pick black in Windows, on second screens: Bug #18947 (possibly even on the canvas) In OSX: Bug #15566 And now in Ubuntu 12.10, though possibly just with some hardware combos: http://forum.intilinux.com/mypaint-help-and-tips/(ubuntu-12-10)-bug-when-i%27m-using-%27pick-color%27-tool/ They might well be GTK issues. However to make this less of a pain to users, we should implement a workaround: have the picker work in the old way whereby colours would be picked from the canvas, but have that only happen when the current Gdk window is that of the canvas. At other times, use the current implementation (using gdk.Pixbuf.get_from_drawable() or Gdk.pixbuf_get_from_window()).	Andrew Chadwick <achadwick>

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Date	Changed By	Updated Field	Previous Value	Replaced By
Fri 04 Jan 2013 09:00:35 PM UTC	jonnor	Open/Closed	Open	Closed
Sun 02 Dec 2012 01:30:15 AM UTC	achadwick	Status	Confirmed	Ready For Test
		Assigned to	None	achadwick
Thu 22 Nov 2012 04:45:45 AM UTC	achadwick	Status	None	Confirmed

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