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------- Additional comments from nekoh...@openoffice.org Mon Jan 5 19:11:33 +0000 2009 ------- I partly disagree: a default palette should (in my humble opinion) be intended to look good and provide a sensible default that can be applied to most situations, not a special effects showcase. Also, I "could" have provided variants for radial/axial/square/whatever types but: - they are generally (except radial, in some cases) ugly and unsuitable for diagrams or charts, really. They are also constraining/lack flexibility (no way to have more than 2 colors, or set precise points where those colors are positioned, for example) - I would just have duplicated all the linear gradients I have done here and flipped the switch from "linear" to "radial" or "axial" or whatever. What's the point? The user could have done so him/herself. - past a certain amount, too much choice is not a good thing, both cognitively (Iyengar and Lepper, 2008) [1] and artistically (because they will start showing lack of uniqueness) Finally, the defaults are intended to be starting points that the user can customize, but not a "look, we can do ALL gradient types!" gallery. In the line of thought that trying to provide more stuff would just be duplicates (see above) or that the more diversity you try to provide, the more it looks like what we currently had up to now, I think it would be better (and easier) to exercise voluntary restraint in the defaults that are provided. But yeah, maybe 2-3 radial gradients could be added, if they can look good ;) [1] http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/articles/Choice_is_Demotivating.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@framework.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@framework.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
