Flameshot: Choose custom colors of color wheel

[TCastelein]

I would like to customize the colors in the color wheel activated when right mouse clicking. I see in the code that there is a setting called userColors however i fail to add it correctly to the ini file so i don't have it working.

Can anybody help me with an example of how to edit the userColors or the feature request of setting the colors through the CLI just like main and contrast color.

[socketbox]

Yes, this would be nice. The code seems to indicate that a list of strings will be read in from the INI file, but none of the following work.

userColors={"black","white",...<seven more colors>}
userColors=@Variant(\0\0\0\x43\xff\xff\xffx\x86\x00\x00\x00\0\0)     
userColors={"#ffffff", "#000000"}

syslog shows qt5ct: custom style sheet is disabled, apparently after the application fails to parse the file.

QTColor.isValidColor() takes either a color name, or a hex value.

[nst0022]

The syntax is:

userColors=#800000, #ff0000, #ffff00, #00ff00, #008000, #00ffff, #0000ff, #ff00ff, #800080

= default colors = darkRed, red, yellow, green, darkGreen, cyan, blue, magenta, darkMagenta

[socketbox]

@nst0022 I'm sorry, I must be dense, but putting that exact line in my ~/.config/Dharkael/flameshot.ini file prevents the app from opening.

That is, if I add userColors as you've typed...

[General]                                                                                                                                                      
buttons=@Variant(\0\0\0\x7f\0\0\0\vQList<int>\0\0\0\0\xf\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\x2\0\0\0\x3\0\0\0\x4\0\0\0\x5\0\0\0\x6\0\0\0\xf\0\0\0\a\0\0\0\b\0\0\0\t\0\0\0\n\0\0\0\v\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\r\0\0\0\xe)                                                                                                                                     
contastUiColor=@Variant(\0\0\0\x43\x2\xff\xff\x39\b\xeb\xf9\xe9\xce\0\0)                                                                                       
disabledTrayIcon=false                                                                                                                                         
drawColor=@Variant(\0\0\0\x43\x1\xff\xff\xff\xff\0\0\0\0\0\0)                                                                                                  
drawThickness=0                                                                                                                                                
filenamePattern=flameshot-%F-%T                                                                                                                                
savePath=/home/socketbox/Desktop/Screenshots                                                                                                                         
showHelp=true                                                                                                                                                  
uiColor=@Variant(\0\0\0\x43\x2\xff\xffx\x86\xff\xff\xff\xff\0\0)                                                                                               
userColors=#800000, #ff0000, #ffff00, #00ff00, #008000, #00ffff, #0000ff, #ff00ff, #800080                                                                  

and then run /usr/bin/flameshot gui -p /home/socketbox/Desktop/Screenshots/ no GUI is displayed. When I remove the userColors line, the application presents a UI.

[nst0022]

It works here with

Flameshot v0.6.0-70-g91ba28c
Compiled with Qt 5.11.3

[socketbox]

@nst0022 Thanks, I was able to compile the commit you mentioned with Qt 5.12.2 and the userColors option works.

[Malorn44]

How would I compile the newer version with qt. It doesn't seem to be able to update as it says the newest version for me is v0.5.xxx in Ubuntu

[socketbox]

@Malorn44 I cloned and, immediately prior to building, pulled from the repo. What version of Ubuntu are you running?