Inkscape color chooser widget's maximum limited to 245 instead of 255

I'm having the same problem. Makes the application almost totally unusable and needs to be fixed!!

I should have marked this one duplicate, as the following bug report is more descriptive, sorry for drmad.
But the problem really seems to be caused by new GTK+ 2.13, when it happens in 0.46 source-built version (see referred link).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/262681

Marking this as confirmed because of two other confirming comments.

Maybe ahead of time, but I reported it to gnome bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549832

Confirmed. This is ultra irritating as you can't do things like use the colour white from the HSV palette (unless you count "typing the RGBA value in hex every single time" a workaround). The worst side-effect is that every colour you touch is given an alpha value of 245/255, which means going around and editing all the colours back to full opacity by hand.

Copied from gnome bugzilla:

------- Comment #1 from Matthias Clasen 2008-09-04 00:47 UTC -------
GTK+ is simply enforcing documented behaviour now. The fix is to set page_size
to 0 when using adjustments for simple scalar values, such as in a slider.

>From the release notes:

* GtkAdjustment now enforces that values are restricted to the
  range [lower, upper - page_size]. This has always been the documented
  behaviour, and the recommended practice is to set page_size to 0
  when using adjustments for simple scalar values, like in a slider
  or spin button.

Is there a _easy_ way to correct that GtkAdjustment problem? Perhaps somebody can write a patch? IMHO that seems to be simple to fix.

This is a must fix before 0.47 is released.

In src/widgets/sp-color-slider.cpp, line 332, this little modification seems to fix the problem:

 if (!adjustment) {
  adjustment = (GtkAdjustment *) gtk_adjustment_new (0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.01, 0.0, 0.0);
 }
 //in case of existing adjustment
    gtk_adjustment_set_page_increment(adjustment, 0.0);
    gtk_adjustment_set_page_size(adjustment, 0.0);

Maybe someone with knowledge of the older SP-vintage widgets can decide if this is a valid fix or is merely fixing the symptom.

Posting this to the maillist.

Bob committed fix to SVN.

Reopening for Ubuntu, this bug is still present in Inkscape 0.46-5ubuntu1 (jaunty)

$ inkscape --version
Inkscape 0.46 (Jan 27 2009)

This is fixed in what will be 0.47, not back in 0.46.

There is a fix in. It is just that a release has not yet been made and pushed downstream

This is why it's reopened for Ubuntu. The fix is not present in Ubuntu yet. Also, setting status to Confirmed (from Duplicate). As Jaunty has passed the feature freeze, a patch for fixing this particular problem would be most welcome!

is this going to be released for ubuntu soon? or when is 0.47 being released?
this also seems to be happening in every new ubuntu alpha. It happened in hardy, intrepid, and now jaunty [when they were still in alpha stage]. Is there any way that it could be permanently fixed?

This issue is FINALLY fixed in the current svn. The Ubuntu packages for this work and the problem is not present. They are here:
https://launchpad.net/~towolf/+archive/ppa

Presumably this is the patch needing to be pulled.

Bryce, I'm afraid even more modifications to the GtkAdjustments are required:

http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/widgets/stroke-style.cpp?r1=20840&r2=20839&pathrev=20840

artfwo, could you attach a patch here with what exactly should be pulled for Ubuntu Jaunty?

Okay, but in this case I will do a deeper examination of what is to be pulled for this bug and produce a patch, but only in the evening.

It is done.

Attaching the debdiff with cherry picks, which fix both this bug and bug 338196 - they are related in a way, so there is a single patch for both. Needs a sponsor to upload! :)

A test build is available from my PPA as well:
https://launchpad.net/~artfwo/+archive/ppa

Everything works okay here. Inkscape is usable again, yay!

This bug was fixed in the package inkscape - 0.46-5ubuntu4

---------------
inkscape (0.46-5ubuntu4) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Add 104_gtk_zero_pagesize.dpatch:
    - Cherry pick from 0.47 SVN for the "color value limited to 245" bug
      (LP: #257685)
    - Cherry pick from 0.47 SVN for other GtkAdjustment related warnings
      (LP: #338196)

 -- Aerteieem PEopeove <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:04:08 +0700

Артём, good work; I've sponsored the upload.

[oops]

Confirmed now working in Jaunty inkscape 0.46-5ubuntu4

Tim, it's fixed in SVN. The fix will be included in Inkscape 0.47, which will be released in june.
Meanwhile, you can try a development version (Tobias Wolf has a PPA in launchpad with a recent build for Jaunty).

I'm running jaunty with inkscape 0.46-5ubuntu4. The same problem is still present.

Right now I've compiled and made a package from 0.47pre2 to RPM.
It has no problem. I compiled and run on Mandriva. If you have time to download and try it, why not?
Check this site:
brtkr[point]extra[point]hu/downloads.php?cat_id=5