Re: Any utility to adding a color wheel to WXT (and Qt) terminals?

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 02/01/2017 04:35 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 02/01/2017 04:23 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
[snip]
>> When I'm doing that sort of thing, my go-to is gcolor2 -- much lighter
>> than gimp -- http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/ I like to have not only a
>> color wheel with a hex read-out but also an "eye-dropper" tool to grab a
>> nice color from somewhere on the desktop if required. gcolor2 has that
>> (as also gimp, of course).
>>
>> Whether this sort of tool is something that gnuplot should arrange to
>> provide, I don't know. I think it may fall under the "Swiss army knife"
>> (good software should not aim to be) objection.
>
> Yes, true.  I was thinking that since these frameworks already have
> color-picker features, they are simply a matter of a few lines.
>
> I installed gcolor2 and this works nicely, thanks.  In addition to the
> eye-dropper, it also goes one step more in convenience by combining the
> RGB into a ready-made triplet #rrggbb that can be easily selected,
> copied and pasted.

And there is a list of colors to choose from in gcolor2, including the 
"w3c" or "html" names that Ethan pointed out.

Dan