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Bug: Copypasting itself leads to increasingly dark colours on hsl/hsla

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
desktop

Research direction

The issue names no source file, test, or entry point. First reproduce the repeated copy-and-paste sequence with an HSL/HSLA colour on the reported desktop setup, then locate the copy and paste handling and verify that the colour remains unchanged after repeated cycles.

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Description

What Happened?

HSL/HSLA doesnt maintain same colour when you repeteadly copy and paste in this format

Steps to Reproduce

have a colour in HSL/HSLA
copy button
paste button
copy
paste
copy
paste

Expected Behavior

Should be the same colour

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

OS Architecture

amd64 (on most hardwares)

Session Type

Classic Session (X11, This is the default)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

Hardware Info

No response

Dominant language
Vala
Stars
17
Forks
4
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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