On Aug 15, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Michael Park wrote:

So I installed inkscape-0.46-2.fc9.x86_64, and it's exhibiting

unexpected behaviour in the color-picking widgets (in the Fill +

Stroke dialog). Basically, they're not displaying any color:

http://imagebin.org/24367 (RGB)

http://imagebin.org/24368 (HSL)

http://imagebin.org/24369 (CMYK)

The 'Wheel' color picker, however, seems just fine. Is there a

specific package dependency that I need to reinstall to get these

color pickers to work (this is in Fedora 9).

I also tried compiling from

http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/inkscape-19664.tar.bz2 (build

19666 didn't seem to compile), but got the same result with the color

pickers. Can someone help point me in the right direction to solving

this?

That is quite interesting.

Those first three you are having problems with all use a custom slider widget that was inherited from pre-Inkscape code. The "wheel" picker is also custom code, but was written differently (by me) just after Inkscape branched.

That you see the same results with both the prebuilt version and the version you compile shows it is probably something fundamental about the approach being taken.

Can you run from the console and look for any error messages?

And if you want to dive in a little further, the code involved there is pretty self-contained and is not hard to start with.