Adding settings to control color decorator behavior

src/vs/editor/common/config/editorOptions.ts

@@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ export interface IEditorOptions {
 	 * Enable inline color decorators and color picker rendering.
 	 */
 	colorDecorators?: boolean;
+	/**
+	 * Controls what is the condition to spawn a color picker from a color dectorator
+	 */
+	colorDecoratorsActivatedOn?: 'clickAndHover' | 'click' | 'hover';
 	/**
 	 * Controls the max number of color decorators that can be rendered in an editor at once.
 	 */
@@ -5062,7 +5066,8 @@ export const enum EditorOption {
 	tabFocusMode,
 	layoutInfo,
 	wrappingInfo,
-	defaultColorDecorators
+	defaultColorDecorators,
+	colorDecoratorsActivatedOn
 }
 
 export const EditorOptions = {
@@ -5211,6 +5216,14 @@ export const EditorOptions = {
 		EditorOption.colorDecorators, 'colorDecorators', true,
 		{ description: nls.localize('colorDecorators', "Controls whether the editor should render the inline color decorators and color picker.") }
 	)),
+	colorDecoratorActivatedOn: register(new EditorStringEnumOption(EditorOption.colorDecoratorsActivatedOn, 'colorDecoratorsActivatedOn', 'clickAndHover' as 'clickAndHover' | 'hover' | 'click', ['clickAndHover', 'hover', 'click'] as const, {
+		enumDescriptions: [
+			nls.localize('editor.colorDecoratorActivatedOn.clickAndHover', "Make the color picker appear both on click and hover of the color decorator"),
+			nls.localize('editor.colorDecoratorActivatedOn.hover', "Make the color picker appear on hover of the color decorator"),
+			nls.localize('editor.colorDecoratorActivatedOn.click', "Make the color picker appear on click of the color decorator")
+		],
+		description: nls.localize('colorDecoratorActivatedOn', "Controls the condition to make a color picker appear from a color decorator")
+	})),
 	colorDecoratorsLimit: register(new EditorIntOption(
 		EditorOption.colorDecoratorsLimit, 'colorDecoratorsLimit', 500, 1, 1000000,
 		{

src/vs/editor/common/standalone/standaloneEnums.ts

@@ -315,7 +315,8 @@ export enum EditorOption {
 	tabFocusMode = 139,
 	layoutInfo = 140,
 	wrappingInfo = 141,
-	defaultColorDecorators = 142
+	defaultColorDecorators = 142,
+	colorDecoratorsActivatedOn = 143
 }
 
 /**

src/vs/editor/contrib/colorPicker/browser/colorContributions.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import { Disposable } from 'vs/base/common/lifecycle';
 import { ICodeEditor, IEditorMouseEvent, MouseTargetType } from 'vs/editor/browser/editorBrowser';
 import { EditorContributionInstantiation, registerEditorContribution } from 'vs/editor/browser/editorExtensions';
+import { EditorOption } from 'vs/editor/common/config/editorOptions';
 import { Range } from 'vs/editor/common/core/range';
 import { IEditorContribution } from 'vs/editor/common/editorCommon';
 import { ColorDecorationInjectedTextMarker } from 'vs/editor/contrib/colorPicker/browser/colorDetector';
@@ -31,6 +32,12 @@ export class ColorContribution extends Disposable implements IEditorContribution
 	}
 
 	private onMouseDown(mouseEvent: IEditorMouseEvent) {
+
+		const colorDecoratorsActivatedOn = this._editor.getOption(EditorOption.colorDecoratorsActivatedOn);
+		if (colorDecoratorsActivatedOn !== 'click' && colorDecoratorsActivatedOn !== 'clickAndHover') {
+			return;
+		}
+
 		const target = mouseEvent.target;
 
 		if (target.type !== MouseTargetType.CONTENT_TEXT) {
@@ -55,7 +62,7 @@ export class ColorContribution extends Disposable implements IEditorContribution
 		}
 		if (!hoverController.isColorPickerVisible()) {
 			const range = new Range(target.range.startLineNumber, target.range.startColumn + 1, target.range.endLineNumber, target.range.endColumn + 1);
-			hoverController.showContentHover(range, HoverStartMode.Immediate, HoverStartSource.Mouse, false);
+			hoverController.showContentHover(range, HoverStartMode.Immediate, HoverStartSource.Mouse, false, true);
 		}
 	}
 }

src/vs/editor/contrib/hover/browser/hover.ts

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ export class ModesHoverController implements IEditorContribution {
 	private _hoverClicked: boolean;
 	private _isHoverEnabled!: boolean;
 	private _isHoverSticky!: boolean;
+	private _hoverActivatedByColorDecoratorClick: boolean = false;
 
 	static get(editor: ICodeEditor): ModesHoverController | null {
 		return editor.getContribution<ModesHoverController>(ModesHoverController.ID);
@@ -175,7 +176,15 @@ export class ModesHoverController implements IEditorContribution {
 			return;
 		}
 
-		if (!this._isHoverEnabled) {
+		const mouseOnDecorator = target.element?.classList.contains('colorpicker-color-decoration');
+		const decoratorActivatedOn = this._editor.getOption(EditorOption.colorDecoratorsActivatedOn);
+
+		if ((mouseOnDecorator && (
+			(decoratorActivatedOn === 'click' && !this._hoverActivatedByColorDecoratorClick) ||
+			(decoratorActivatedOn === 'hover' && !this._isHoverEnabled) ||
+			(decoratorActivatedOn === 'clickAndHover' && !this._isHoverEnabled && !this._hoverActivatedByColorDecoratorClick)))
+			|| !mouseOnDecorator && !this._isHoverEnabled && !this._hoverActivatedByColorDecoratorClick
+		) {
 			this._hideWidgets();
 			return;
 		}
@@ -219,7 +228,7 @@ export class ModesHoverController implements IEditorContribution {
 		if ((this._isMouseDown && this._hoverClicked && this._contentWidget?.isColorPickerVisible()) || InlineSuggestionHintsContentWidget.dropDownVisible) {
 			return;
 		}
-
+		this._hoverActivatedByColorDecoratorClick = false;
 		this._hoverClicked = false;
 		this._glyphWidget?.hide();
 		this._contentWidget?.hide();
@@ -236,7 +245,8 @@ export class ModesHoverController implements IEditorContribution {
 		return this._contentWidget?.isColorPickerVisible() || false;
 	}
 
-	public showContentHover(range: Range, mode: HoverStartMode, source: HoverStartSource, focus: boolean): void {
+	public showContentHover(range: Range, mode: HoverStartMode, source: HoverStartSource, focus: boolean, activatedByColorDecoratorClick: boolean = false): void {
+		this._hoverActivatedByColorDecoratorClick = activatedByColorDecoratorClick;
 		this._getOrCreateContentWidget().startShowingAtRange(range, mode, source, focus);
 	}
 

src/vs/monaco.d.ts

@@ -3434,6 +3434,10 @@ declare namespace monaco.editor {
 		 * Enable inline color decorators and color picker rendering.
 		 */
 		colorDecorators?: boolean;
+		/**
+		 * Controls what is the condition to spawn a color picker from a color dectorator
+		 */
+		colorDecoratorsActivatedOn?: 'clickAndHover' | 'click' | 'hover';
 		/**
 		 * Controls the max number of color decorators that can be rendered in an editor at once.
 		 */
@@ -4905,7 +4909,8 @@ declare namespace monaco.editor {
 		tabFocusMode = 139,
 		layoutInfo = 140,
 		wrappingInfo = 141,
-		defaultColorDecorators = 142
+		defaultColorDecorators = 142,
+		colorDecoratorsActivatedOn = 143
 	}
 
 	export const EditorOptions: {
@@ -4929,6 +4934,7 @@ declare namespace monaco.editor {
 		codeLensFontFamily: IEditorOption<EditorOption.codeLensFontFamily, string>;
 		codeLensFontSize: IEditorOption<EditorOption.codeLensFontSize, number>;
 		colorDecorators: IEditorOption<EditorOption.colorDecorators, boolean>;
+		colorDecoratorActivatedOn: IEditorOption<EditorOption.colorDecoratorsActivatedOn, 'clickAndHover' | 'click' | 'hover'>;
 		colorDecoratorsLimit: IEditorOption<EditorOption.colorDecoratorsLimit, number>;
 		columnSelection: IEditorOption<EditorOption.columnSelection, boolean>;
 		comments: IEditorOption<EditorOption.comments, Readonly<Required<IEditorCommentsOptions>>>;