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On 2011-05-22T15:30:19+00:00 Dave Neary wrote:

After many years using LibreOffice/OOo I found out today for the first
time how to set font colour to a custom RGB colour.

To do this, you need to add a new colour to the palette, via
Tools->Options, Colour.

Then in that dialog, the workflow is kind of unintuitive. I clicked on
the "Add" button to add a new colour, which was the wrong thing to do -
apparently I needed to change the name of the active colour first - then
when I clicked "Modify", and set the new RGB colour, then clicked "OK",
the colour wasn't saved - I had to click "Modify" first.

I was expecting to see this in the toolbar in the colour drop-down -
perhaps a "Custom" button at the bottom of drop-down? Or right-
click->Modify in the palette colours? Or even in "Format->Character".
But this definitely seems like a context change, rather than a global
setting/option.

Dave.

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On 2011-05-22T23:55:55+00:00 Yfjiang wrote:

In my opinion, good point, but not sure which is the preferred way to do
that.

As a summary:

1. a "Custom" button at the bottom of color drop-down?

2. right-click->Modify in the palette colours?

3. context based change in "Format->Character"?

4. Redesign current dialog box?

Anyway it is an Enhancement request.

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On 2011-05-22T23:57:08+00:00 Yfjiang wrote:

cc Christoph for reviewing, Thanks!

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On 2011-05-25T09:12:43+00:00 Christoph-spamforme wrote:

Hi Dave, thanks for the feedback. Yifan, thanks for the CC!
True, color handling is hard - we are collecting color handling issues at the 
moment. I'll kindly ask for two weeks patience for some more info how we'll 
address those issues.

Setting tag "color_handling" to "Whiteboard".

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On 2011-05-30T10:54:51+00:00 Dave Neary wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)
> Then in that dialog, the workflow is kind of unintuitive. I clicked on the
> "Add" button to add a new colour, which was the wrong thing to do - apparently
> I needed to change the name of the active colour first - then when I clicked
> "Modify", and set the new RGB colour, then clicked "OK", the colour wasn't
> saved - I had to click "Modify" first.

I realise this is poorly explained... let me try again.

When I get to the colours dialog in the options, my instinct was to hit
the "Add" button to add a new colour. But this creates a new colour from
the active colours (which is, by default, Blue 8 with RGB (153,204,255)
for me) and fails with a "Duplicate entry" error. There's then a pop-up
which prompts me for a new colour name.

I put in "Scarlet". I wanted to set it to (61,6,7). So I hit "Modify" to
modify the colour, then set the RGB to (61,6,7), the colour looks OK,
and I hit "OK" to save is. The problem is that this saves "Scarlet" as
(153,204,255), because to save my updated colour, I was supposed to hit
"Modify". This also applies if I change the colour with the "Edit"
button. I would expect "OK" to save the colour as it is, and "Cancel" to
revert to the previously saved colour.

Hope that's clearer. In any case, happy to see the bug report get
attention :)

Dave.

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On 2011-06-13T08:40:46+00:00 gggeek wrote:

+1

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On 2011-11-01T06:06:38+00:00 Vitriol-vitriol wrote:

*** Bug 42474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2011-11-01T06:47:06+00:00 Michal Suchanek wrote:

There are two issues here:

1) adding colors to the palette is separate from using colors to the
palette.

This is clearly wrong UI.

2) adding colors to the palette is awkward

I guess this could be solved by

a) adding/ re-using from toolkit a simple color picker. The current
picker is weird and there are existing better pickers in
Gtk/Windows/Gimp/.. which could be reused from the underlying platform
or ported.

b) add a "Custom ..." option in the color dropdowns which calls this
picker.

The picker should have OK or Apply to use the color and "Add to palette"
to save the color.

c) if the colors in preferences are to be preserved then there should be
an "Add ..." button that invokes the same picker with "Apply" disabled
(not visible).

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On 2013-02-23T19:43:07+00:00 Björn Michaelsen wrote:

> c) if the colors in preferences are to be preserved then there should be an
> "Add ..." button that invokes the same picker with "Apply" disabled (not
> visible).

This is done by mmeeks work in current releases, for the rest: The
description of this bug is still very vague => NEEDINFO

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