Color picker not working under Wayland

[madjesc]

Expected Behavior

When clicking in the global color picker, it should zoom in and let me choose a color.
Like #432 gif

Current Behavior

The color picker circle does nothing and the cursor gets stuck
Log:

(Akira:2): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 16:44:35.500: gdk_monitor_get_geometry: assertion 'GDK_IS_MONITOR (monitor)' failed

Possible Solution

1. Use xdg portals
2. Make the color picker only local <--- I will try to do this
3. Delete the color picker

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Run akira under Wayland
2. Click in the color picker
3. Try to pick a color from the screen

Context

I was trying the app features and this happened

Your Environment (for bugs)

• Akira Version: v0.0.14 - alpha
• OS Info:
  Linux pKnw 5.11.22_1 How to install Akira in linux? #1 SMP 1621481187 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  NAME="void"
  ID="void"
  DISTRIB_ID="void"
  PRETTY_NAME="void"

[Alecaddd]

Thanks for the report.
I'm not currently using Wayland so I can't test this issue.
If you have the means and time, it would be great if you could create PR for it, making sure that the fix keeps the color picker working under X11.

[albfan]

wayland do not have access to other windows (security first) so yes, using portals is the solution.

A wayland color picker can demonstrate how to do it correctly: https://github.com/emersion/grim

[Alecaddd]

@Mkefs any luck in figuring this out? Otherwise I can give it a try

[madjesc]

@Mkefs any luck in figuring this out? Otherwise I can give it a try

Mmm, I'm having some troubles with it, and also I have homework, so I don't have so much time.
But I still working in it

[bilelmoussaoui]

Under wayland, the best shot I can think of using the portals. We can use libportal https://github.com/flatpak/libportal for that, it doesn't provide a vapi file, but we can easily write a wrapper for the pick_color method

See here for an example on how to do so: https://gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/nostalgia/-/blob/master/src/libportal.vapi#L3-26

[albfan]

From color-selection I guess it should be xdp_portal_pick_color

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/gcolor3/-/merge_requests/141/diffs#e8072c54942d0460ac2a08e9cfacb2aebffbd712_1930_1753