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@textovervideo @rodlie gpick ?
https://github.com/thezbyg/gpick

@textovervideo @rodlie
Or Eyedropper : https://github.com/FineFindus/eyedropper

@Aisyk @textovervideo @rodlie Do you happen to know if these tools pick the correct color when KDE has "dim inactive windows" enabled?

As in: the original color, nor the dimmed color.

@ascherbaum @Aisyk @rodlie I am not sure if they pick the correct color, but when I want to find the KDE colors defined in any KDE theme, I look in the KDE settings where they are defined.

@textovervideo @Aisyk @rodlie I want to pick a color in a window on my desktop. As example in a movie currently playing.

This does not work with dimming enabled: when I click "pick color" in kcolorpicker, then this window is active and the movie player is inactive (and dimmed). And kcolorpicker then picks the dimmed color. Very annoying.

@ascherbaum @Aisyk @rodlie Sometimes we need to use work-a-rounds to get things done. My suggestion for picking colors in a video would be to use VLC to play the movie. When I get to the frame that I want to pick the color, I pause the video. Then save the frame as an image on my system.

Menu > Video > Take Snapshot

@textovervideo @Aisyk @rodlie How do you then pick the color from the snapshot? This is the very same problem, right? Movie, picture, snapshot. The app is inactive and dimmed.

@ascherbaum @Aisyk @rodlie You could open the snapshot in GIMP and select the color using the color eye drop.

@textovervideo @Aisyk @rodlie Certainly a workaround, thanks.

I'm using this to extract color information from a video, for OSM mapping. In this case I do this dozens of times, and for that I don't want to do the workaround every time.

@ascherbaum @Aisyk @rodlie I try avoiding workarounds when possible. Sometimes you just cannot avoid them though.