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Willem Vermin - 2024-02-25

Sorry for late response, I missed this ticket.
You are right, the 'eye dropper' fails to function. It selects black, but the snow color is not changed.

Btw, in xfce, the 'eye dropper' is not shown.

Thanks for mentioning,
I'll have a look.

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- Mark Capella - 2024-02-25
  
  Hello!
  
  I really like this app and Plasma KDE is the best afaikt.
  
  I forked a version and added a QT module to the build to replace the
  
  GTK colorpicker with the Qt picker which works cross desktop.
  
  I've done quite a bit of work you might to peek @
  
  https://github.com/markcapella/plasmasnow.
  
  Improvements in the windows.c area are helping much with realtime bugs.
  
  This is a lot of fun. I want to add Xmas lights module next :-)
  
  mark
  
  On 2/24/24 21:03, Willem Vermin wrote:
  
  Sorry for late response, I missed this ticket.
  You are right, the 'eye dropper' fails to function. It selects black,
  but the snow color is not changed.
  
  Btw, in xfce, the 'eye dropper' is not shown.
  
  Thanks for mentioning,
  I'll have a look.
  
  [tickets:#15] https://sourceforge.net/p/xsnow/tickets/15/ Color
  Picker and Plasma KDE
  
  Status: open
  Milestone: 1.0
  Created: Thu Sep 21, 2023 02:27 AM UTC by Mark Capella
  Last Updated: Thu Sep 21, 2023 02:27 AM UTC
  Owner: nobody
  
  I'm running a Plasma desktop (with XSNOW 2023 xsnow-3.7.5 built
  locally. It's great.
  
  When changing snow color, it seems the "eye dropper" button function
  in the "Pick a Color" dialog fails to function.
  
  It selects color black no matter what, with log messages
  
  (xsnow:708219): GLib-CRITICAL : 22:17:18.754: the GVariant format
  string '(u)' has a type of '(u)' but the given value has a type of '((u))'
  (xsnow:708219): GLib-CRITICAL : 22:17:18.754: g_variant_get:
  assertion 'valid_format_string (format_string, TRUE, value)' failed
  
  Trying version xsnow 3.3.2 installed from |sudo apt install xsnow|
  acts the same, with the same log messages.
  
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Willem Vermin - 2024-02-25

In gnome, the 'eye dropper' works as expected.

In KDE, the bug is probably related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456418

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Willem Vermin - 2024-02-25

Hi!

you did an impressive job on xsnow!
I also love your fresh scenery pictures.

You state that you corrected many realtime bugs. Can you name some
that are present in xsnow-3.7.5? Using your code I could try to
repair them in my version, despite my two left hands when coding for
gtk and X11.

About vintage:

xsnow-1.42 came with a copyright, prohibiting
changing the code, apart from adapting to other environments.
Rick Jansen and I agreed that I could develop xsnow
provided that there is a 'vintage' setting, which
restores the look of xsnow-1.42.
Well, since you call your program 'plasmasnow' this
does not apply to your version, but it would be nice to
restore that setting.

Regards,

Willem
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- Mark Capella - 2024-02-26
  
  :-)
  
  This was a huge fun win
  
  https://github.com/markcapella/plasmasnow/issues/24
  
  It's a big patch as i update random annoying things sometimes in my commits.
  
  This was huge too but Plasma specific.
  
  https://github.com/markcapella/plasmasnow/issues/25
  
  This was nice to clean, and you can do it quick.
  
  https://github.com/markcapella/plasmasnow/issues/9
  
  It's full of other stuff but one line fixs it.
  
  https://github.com/markcapella/plasmasnow/commit/65c145cafcbf40e894f806f37dfa89f6a391690c#diff-990dae1344899558d7ffaa533086e34702bf4c0705be048baa2d081dc2fe0fd9
  
  Nice to talk to you !
  
  🙂 mark
  
  On 2/25/24 17:09, Willem Vermin wrote:
  
  Hi!
  
  you did an impressive job on xsnow!
  I also love your fresh scenery pictures.
  
  You state that you corrected many realtime bugs. Can you name some
  that are present in xsnow-3.7.5? Using your code I could try to
  repair them in my version, despite my two left hands when coding for
  gtk and X11.
  
  About vintage:
  - xsnow-1.42 came with a copyright, prohibiting
  changing the code, apart from adapting to other environments.
  Rick Jansen and I agreed that I could develop xsnow
  provided that there is a 'vintage' setting, which
  restores the look of xsnow-1.42.
  Well, since you call your program 'plasmasnow' this
  does not apply to your version, but it would be nice to
  restore that setting.
  
  Regards,
  
  Willem
  
  [tickets:#15] https://sourceforge.net/p/xsnow/tickets/15/ Color
  Picker and Plasma KDE
  
  Status: open
  Milestone: 1.0
  Created: Thu Sep 21, 2023 02:27 AM UTC by Mark Capella
  Last Updated: Sun Feb 25, 2024 03:06 PM UTC
  Owner: nobody
  
  I'm running a Plasma desktop (with XSNOW 2023 xsnow-3.7.5 built
  locally. It's great.
  
  When changing snow color, it seems the "eye dropper" button function
  in the "Pick a Color" dialog fails to function.
  
  It selects color black no matter what, with log messages
  
  (xsnow:708219): GLib-CRITICAL : 22:17:18.754: the GVariant format
  string '(u)' has a type of '(u)' but the given value has a type of '((u))'
  (xsnow:708219): GLib-CRITICAL : 22:17:18.754: g_variant_get:
  assertion 'valid_format_string (format_string, TRUE, value)' failed
  
  Trying version xsnow 3.3.2 installed from |sudo apt install xsnow|
  acts the same, with the same log messages.
  
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Willem Vermin - 2024-02-26

Hi again,

I implemented the fallensnow->flakes conversion when moving or resizing a window.
Looks good.
I also made the gui window non-resizable.
The problem you mentioned with fallensnow staying fixed on the screen, I could
not reproduce, even with your fxClock as test window. Did not try it in KDE though.
Thanks for your input. Let me know if there are more issues.

BTW: I put the new version on
https://www.ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/xsnow/downloads/index.html

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Willem Vermin - 2024-03-01

Back to the original issue:

the eyedropper button is not visible in all desktop environments

when visible, the behavior is erroneous

the eyedropper is not important for xsnow

Mark Capella has a solution, using QT

having QT next to GTK3 only for the eyedropper seems to me an exaggeration

So, I leave the color button as it is.

Expect a new version of xsnow within a few weeks or so.
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Willem Vermin - 2024-03-01

status: open --> wont-fix
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