Huge ripoff, nothing special

Okay then don't use it. The entire point of KDE is to provide a traditional desktop metaphor that windows users find friendly.

And if you're especially irked, KDE like most FOSS is somewhat community driven, so be the change you desire if that's your kind of thing. Or don't do anything but complain. You're completely free to do whatever.

But that said, you may perhaps be making a mountain out of a molehill, especially UI elements that if MS wanted to cite copyright, they would have done it long time ago. This has been the default color picker for KDE since the 2.x days.

But why would I go to Windows, if KDE has the same colour picker? Literally an argument for me staying is that the colour picker is identical, so not worth switching for the colour picker (which I really don't care about when it comes to choosing a desktop).

All I wanted was to see if anyone knew of a way to allow Firefox to use my desktop environment's colour picker. I don't care if the design is "stolen" from Windows, and I doubt Microsoft cares either. You really have picked a very obscure, and rather stupid hill to die on.

Sorry for being harsh, I'm just frustrated that the discussion here is about KDE's colour picker design, and not about customising Firefox, which is what I asked about.

That just sounds extremely petty....

Can you imagine that someone can like some aspects of an operating system without liking the whole of it?

Considering the History of Windwows stealing KDE Features/ Designs i bet the KDE Color Picker was there first 😜

Searching colors by name? Uh no thanks!

search and process colors by name instead of looking at a bunch of RGB/HSL numbers that make almost no sense to natural artists.

unless you tell them which company's color codes you used to match the names to rgb values this will be more useless to artists than rgb colors without a color preview. Text based colors are purely subjective and you'll be hard pressed to find two companies using the same name for the exact same color mix (you will find companies selling paint under the same name but it sure as hell won't look the same). The closest you'll get are the css default colors but that's a pretty limited selection of colors so with your genius text input method you'd still need a couple of sliders to get the entire color spectrum.

Your idea has merit but not for artists. Casual people would benefit a lot more from it, because they won't have to struggle finding the correct color for what they want most of the time. But even just hobby digital artists will spend more time wrangling with your text input than they would just hand picking the rgb values, never mind professional digital artists who probably don't even think in named colors anymore and just think of the rgb ranges they want instead.

Do you have a link to the Github page? I can't find it and think you're full of shit