GIMP color picker does not work in Wayland

Bug #1705188 reported by corrado venturini
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
The Gimp
Expired
Medium
gimp (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

GIMP color picker does not work in Wayland, it returns just black.
It seems a common problem for 'pick' function in Wayland: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpick/+bug/1704808

Tags: wayland
affects: gpick (Ubuntu) → gimp (Ubuntu)
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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :

Thanks for reporting!

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Changed in gimp:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gimp (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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amano (jyaku) wrote :
Changed in gimp:
importance: Medium → Critical
Changed in gimp:
importance: Critical → Medium
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corrado venturini (corradoventu) wrote :

Still same problem with Gimp 2.10 in Ubuntu Cosmic 18.10

Changed in gimp:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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amano (jyaku) wrote :

The upstream bug was migrated to Gitlab. The link to the gitlab bug is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1074 now.

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corrado venturini (corradoventu) wrote :

On Ubuntu 22.04 gimp 2.10.30 after installing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome color picker works fine.

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