[Libreoffice-ux-advise] white & black in color drop-down ...

Hi there,

        One thing that has annoyed me in the past, but I'm not really a power
user is hunting 'white' down the color selector list. Any thoughts on
this rather trivial patch to move them together ? [ not pushed to msater
].

        Thanks,

                Michael.

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Hi,

Sounds good.

Maybe it would be even better to move all the grey colors up so that
that they aren't somewhere between the other colors.

Kin Regards

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Hi,

Sounds good.

Maybe it would be even better to move all the grey colors up so that
that they aren't somewhere between the other colors.

Kin Regards

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On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 17:24 +0200, Alexander Wilms wrote:
> Sounds good.

        :-)

> Maybe it would be even better to move all the grey colors up so that
> that they aren't somewhere between the other colors.

        Not sure :-) many lazy people just pick from the immediately accesible
colors in the drop-down without scrolling.

        Of course, the widget itself is just busted - who cares about the
'name' of a color ? why waste all that space by presenting it ? I
suspect a drop-down palette like we have in writer would be much more
useful. Any thoughts there ?

        Why do we have that silly, hard-to-use color list in the app where
people most select colors, and a nicer palette widget in writer ?
[ presumably changing that is (modulo dynamically tweaking the combo box
to popup a different widget) an easy-hack ;-]

        Thanks,

                Michael.

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On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 17:24 +0200, Alexander Wilms wrote:
> Sounds good.

        Pushed this one.

> Maybe it would be even better to move all the grey colors up so that
> that they aren't somewhere between the other colors.

        IMHO we need an entirely new color-selection & palette metaphore - with
a few key theme / base colors - so ... ;-)

        Thanks,

                Michael.

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Michael Meeks wrote (26-05-12 22:25)

> Not sure :-) many lazy people just pick from the immediately accesible
> colors in the drop-down without scrolling.

Yes, that's the use of it.

> Of course, the widget itself is just busted - who cares about the
> 'name' of a color ? why waste all that space by presenting it ?

I expect it is helpful to be able to recognise a color by a simple name,
when wanting to select is at more places.
But of course: no objection at all to improve the very old fashioned
color selection. Where is can be faster to be able select a color from a
short list, and have a full solution available too.

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Hi,

> IMHO we need an entirely new color-selection & palette metaphore - with
>a few key theme / base colors - so ...

We have a whiteboard regarding that issue, which is currently on hold:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Color_Handling

Maybe something for LO 3.7

Alex

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Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2012, 21:25:00 schrieb Michael Meeks:
> Of course, the widget itself is just busted - who cares about the
> 'name' of a color ? why waste all that space by presenting it ? I
> suspect a drop-down palette like we have in writer would be much more
> useful. Any thoughts there ?

A name can actually be helpful for the about 8% male and 0,4% female in this
world who are colorblind. Also I can imagine some company branding issues.

Not discussing how to present it though...

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Hi all,

the thing with the name largely is non-issue, I'd say, since our
current hovering palettes clearly show the name of the colour that the
mouse cursor is over at the bottom.

However, it seems amiss in the concept on the whiteboard pages ...
that's an issue we should discuss, I guess.

Astron.
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