242840 - Use platform color picker on "Fonts & Colors" UI

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Sophia Poirier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040506 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040506 Firefox/0.8.0+

In Preferences -> General -> Fonts & Colors, the color choosers should be using
the Mac OS X system Color Picker, not that shoddy non-standard color picker with
only 70 choices.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go into Preferences -> General -> Fonts & Colors and try to edit a color option.
Actual Results:  
**** color menu pops up

Expected Results:  
nice Mac OS X system Color Picker pops up

Comment 1

[Scott Martin]

This applies to Firefox for Linux as well; please modify the bug report
appropriately. Users of Firefox on all OSes should have a color picker for
precise color selection.

Comment 2

[Hiro]

It checked by Windows XP and Mac OS X10.3.3.
OS -> all
Hardware -> all

And this problem is applied also to mozilla.
Probably it will be applied also to thunderbird.

Comment 3

[John Levon]

Well, take your pick here:

bug 42894 - better color picker
bug 56045 - can't select colors other than presets
bug 90667 - rfe: Mac users should have access to native color picker
bug 156989 - RFE: Mac OS X: Use Cocoa color picker...
bug 233460 - [GNOME] use of the gnome colorpicker in the toolkit

none of which really match this bug.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 333348 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Is this a cross-platform version of bug 156989 + bug 233460? I don't see the point.

Comment 8

[u294409]

Submitted 4 years ago.

Shame on you, Mozilla!

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Jakub: we do accept patches!

Comment 10

[u294409]

Yes, but my every programming probe ends without success :/ .

Comment 11

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 3 duplicates.
:mstriemer, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.

Comment 12

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.

Comment 13

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

This seems like more of a Widget thing ?

Also I'm pretty sure the platform color picker is used on Windows and Linux, not sure about macOS but I don't even see a non-native color picker in mozilla-central

Comment 14

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Found it