Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
On 07/23/11 01:25, Richard Hipp wrote: [---] I tried Ross's proposed color choosing algorithm but it didn't work out. So instead I used the hash to select a Hue in an HSV color space, held the S and V fixed, and mapped the result into RGB. The color chooser code is here, if you are interested: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/506fc3a6b2808?ln=116,144 Feedback is encouraged. Remember this changes is experimental and might disappear at any moment! I really like this feature. I haven't followed the thread, but whoever first came up with this feature is a genius. Each time I branch, I need to start looking up appropriate colors. It doesn't take long, but if one sums together each time .. too much time has been wasted in the end. These small time-savers are much appreciated. -- Kind regards, Jan Danielsson ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
On Jul 23, 2011, at 01:25 , Richard Hipp wrote: An experimental change to implement this is on the server. Add the brbg query parameter to the timeline method to have the background color set by branch name. Add ubg to have the background color set by user name. Examples: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=cibrbg http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=ciubg Just what I asked for :) Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
Why does the same branch (trunk) take different backgrounds? - Original Message - From: Richard Hipp Sent: 07/23/11 04:55 AM To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Ross Berteig r...@cheshireeng.com wrote: For skins that are dark text on white background, then using the existing MD5 hash on the tag name, picking a convenient three; ... it would make an entertaining experiment, whether or not it turns out to be useful in practice. An experimental change to implement this is on the server. Add the brbg query parameter to the timeline method to have the background color set by branch name. Add ubg to have the background color set by user name. Examples: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=cibrbg http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=ciubg I tried Ross's proposed color choosing algorithm but it didn't work out. So instead I used the hash to select a Hue in an HSV color space, held the S and V fixed, and mapped the result into RGB. The color chooser code is here, if you are interested: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/506fc3a6b2808?ln=116,144 Feedback is encouraged. Remember this changes is experimental and might disappear at any moment! -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
Never mind. I swapped ubg brbg - Original Message - From: Altu Faltu Sent: 07/23/11 12:01 PM To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil Why does the same branch (trunk) take different backgrounds? - Original Message - From: Richard Hipp Sent: 07/23/11 04:55 AM To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Ross Berteig r...@cheshireeng.com wrote: For skins that are dark text on white background, then using the existing MD5 hash on the tag name, picking a convenient three; ... it would make an entertaining experiment, whether or not it turns out to be useful in practice. An experimental change to implement this is on the server. Add the brbg query parameter to the timeline method to have the background color set by branch name. Add ubg to have the background color set by user name. Examples: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=cibrbg http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=ciubg I tried Ross's proposed color choosing algorithm but it didn't work out. So instead I used the hash to select a Hue in an HSV color space, held the S and V fixed, and mapped the result into RGB. The color chooser code is here, if you are interested: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/506fc3a6b2808?ln=116,144 Feedback is encouraged. Remember this changes is experimental and might disappear at any moment! -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
On 07/23/11 01:06, Ross Berteig wrote: I get the impression that your calculation picks hues that are too close together... it might be better to quantize it more to keep them further separated. I think that'll just force currently-similar colours to be the SAME colour, by reducing the space of available colours... ...allowing some variablity in S and V might be a better idea, to expand the space. Since the text color is controlled by the CSS which fossil almost certainly does not parse, you probably would need a separate configuration option somewhere to choose between dark and light automatic color choices. Perhaps the configuration could list max and min values for H, S and V, and have Fossil pick a colour within that region. The default would allow all of H and a small range of pastel-oriented S/V. People with a bold corporate colour scheme could restrict H somewhat if blue just really clashed with their headers! :-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
[fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Ross Berteig r...@cheshireeng.comwrote: For skins that are dark text on white background, then using the existing MD5 hash on the tag name, picking a convenient three; ... it would make an entertaining experiment, whether or not it turns out to be useful in practice. An experimental change to implement this is on the server. Add the brbg query parameter to the timeline method to have the background color set by branch name. Add ubg to have the background color set by user name. Examples: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=cibrbg http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=ciubg I tried Ross's proposed color choosing algorithm but it didn't work out. So instead I used the hash to select a Hue in an HSV color space, held the S and V fixed, and mapped the result into RGB. The color chooser code is here, if you are interested: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/506fc3a6b2808?ln=116,144 Feedback is encouraged. Remember this changes is experimental and might disappear at any moment! -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: An experimental change to implement this is on the server. Add the brbg query parameter to the timeline method to have the background color set by branch name. Add ubg to have the background color set by user name. Examples: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=cibrbg http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200y=ciubg That is a very lovely extension to the original idea (which, i think, was just to do it when branching, as opposed to downstream). :-D http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/506fc3a6b2808?ln=116,144 And the block highlighting is new to me! Cool! Feedback is encouraged. Remember this changes is experimental and might disappear at any moment! For a first try it's pretty damned nice :). -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.comwrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Ross Berteig r...@cheshireeng.comwrote: For skins that are dark text on white background, then using the existing MD5 hash on the tag name, picking a convenient three; ... it would make an entertaining experiment, whether or not it turns out to be useful in practice. An experimental change to implement this is on the server. Add the brbg query parameter to the timeline method to have the background color set by branch name. Add ubg to have the background color set by user name. Another change: The extra query parameters above still work. But now if a branch does not have a color set on it, a background color is chosen automatically, using the same hash-the-branch-name algorithm. So I think this gives you automatic branch coloring with the ability to override if you like. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
At 04:25 PM 7/22/2011, Richard Hipp wrote: An experimental change to implement this is on the server... I tried Ross's proposed color choosing algorithm but it didn't work out. So instead I used the hash to select a Hue in an HSV color space, held the S and V fixed, and mapped the result into RGB. The color chooser code is here, if you are interested: I hadn't taken time to see how muddy the result was, so I'm not surprised if my quick and dirty approach didn't look pretty out of the box. Your HSV method looks quite hopeful. I also like the idea of marking users instead of branches, although my personal use of Fossil only has a few distinct users. Using a hash to pick H with S and V held constant should work a lot better than computing RGB directly from hash bits. Even better might be to include at least one other SV pair that is distinctly different from the existing choice. I get the impression that your calculation picks hues that are too close together... it might be better to quantize it more to keep them further separated. Feedback is encouraged. Remember this changes is experimental and might disappear at any moment! Overall, I really like the effect. I think that to handle a skin with light text on dark backgrounds, you might want a control or view that simply ignores the capability. Otherwise, it is possible that doing exactly this but with much darker values and increased saturation would work out ok. Since the text color is controlled by the CSS which fossil almost certainly does not parse, you probably would need a separate configuration option somewhere to choose between dark and light automatic color choices. Ross Berteig r...@cheshireeng.com Cheshire Engineering Corp. http://www.CheshireEng.com/ +1 626 303 1602 +1 626 351 1590 FAX ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Feedback is encouraged. Remember this changes is experimental and might disappear at any moment! Looks very nice. The pastel colors do a great job on white with black text. I'd say a worthwhile feature. Is there an easy way to make that the default look of the timeline? I was actually messing around with a color selection algorithm myself, and came to approximately the same conclusion about the pastel colors, but using RGB requires a bit more massaging than your HSV idea--nice one. Wes ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
