Color picker when selecting Custom accent color seems off?

When selecting “Custom accent color” in “Colors & Themes > Global Theme > Colors” the buttons on the window for picking the color seem out of place, doesn’t seem to follow KDE design.

Overall I think it would be better to launch KColorChooser for this instead of this window, KColorChooser has even more options.

Look here,
1- above systemsettings,
2- The dedicated window for color picking that systemsettings launches,
3- below KColorChooser launched by me manually to compare:

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Hi! For what it’s worth, as mentioned in the following KDE Bugtracking System issue - 490861 – Use of Qt's QML color picker dialogs constitutes a usability regression - this is the Qt-provided color picker for situations like this, although it is…not optimal :sweat_smile:

It sounds like there’s likely some bigger upstream development effort that would be required to improve this, based on the comment here: 487387 – Use of unstyled Qt QML font selector dialogs constitutes a visual and usability regression

Or we could use our own color picker: kcms/colors: use native accent color picker (!5243) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Workspace · GitLab

Though there may be reasons not to, but that’s what we do e.g. in the color selection for System Monitor and its Plasma widgets.

I have dejavu

Hi,

Issue solved, Notable Bug Fixes, Plasma 6.3.1

If you’re referring to this:

Fixed a few bugs in the Color Picker widget, such as the shortcut option not working, and the tooltip not looking correct in certain circumstances. (Christoph Wolk, link 1 and link 2)

I could be wrong, but I think that’s referring to the dedicated Color Picker widget that can be added to a panel or desktop, rather than the popup dialog that appears when you’re picking a custom accent color in System Settings.

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