Hey, as already mnetioned several times during the ESC call our color handling is suboptimal. Currently we over more or less around 100 hard coded colors in our color picker dialogs. While one can argue that only a few colors are really necessary it creates big problems in interoperability when you get a document that uses colors that we don't offer. This is also a problem in the discussed changes to the default color palette as it makes it more difficult for people to select the old colors.
Additionaly we have no way to use ARGB right now in the UI while it is supported in the code. So we should find a solution that most likely limits the standard color palette but offers an easy way to define custom colors. We need maybe even more than one single concept to cover all the places where use color pickers. I know immediately 3 different places that use already different concepts: - color button for example in normal dialogs - uses right now a button with the color names - toolbar button for font color, cell background color - needs a small pop-up dialog with a button to go to a bigger dialog for defining custom colors? - bigger dialogs like the cell background color in the cell formatting dialog - lots of space there It would be good if we could find a good solution for all our color pickers that look consistent and make it easier for users to select custom colors. I think a feasible target to get this in would be 4.1. This would then also allow to use new colors for the palette as we are no longer bound to the old fixed color set. I'm looking forward to your suggestions and input. Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise