Issue 116 in gpick: Very difficult to use with focus-follows-mouse

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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium

New issue 116 by sampo.ni...@mwsoy.com: Very difficult to use with
focus-follows-mouse
http://code.google.com/p/gpick/issues/detail?id=116

I've tried different ways of using gpick, and it seems very difficult to
use when the window manager is configured for focus follow mouse. The
default spacebar selection does not work (because the focus has left gpick).

When I try to use the color picker button, I get the zoom window, and when
I click somewhere, the middle color takes the color. But when I move my
mouse, it changes.

The only way I figured out to select a color is to click the picker button,
click on the color I want, and press space before moving my mouse cursor.
This is so difficult that I've reverted back to taking screenshots and
opening them in Gimp. The picker should pick the color I click on.

I'm using Gpick 0.2.5 on Linux Mint 16.

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Comment #1 on issue 116 by thezbyg: Very difficult to use with
focus-follows-mouse
http://code.google.com/p/gpick/issues/detail?id=116

Please enable the "Add to palette" checkbox in the "Edit -> Preferences...
-> Picker -> Floating picker click behavior" option section. With this
option enabled, colors can be added to the palette without using any
keyboard keys: right click on the center color, and left click anywhere on
the screen, or drag the center color to the desired screen location.

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Comment #2 on issue 116 by sampo.ni...@mwsoy.com: Very difficult to use
with focus-follows-mouse
http://code.google.com/p/gpick/issues/detail?id=116

Thanks, with that setting it's possible to use the picker. It was far from
obvious what setting should be changed to be able to use it.

It would be nice to have a "Focus follows mouse" mode in GPick. For
example, it would be good that the window preview would update always when
the window (or any part of it) is visible, not only when the window is
focused.

The system tray applet is useful even in this case (though personally the
drag-drop functionality seems a bit strange compared to click-click).