Hi, To make it short. - Having colors of the document is great from a usability point of view. - I'm afraid it might complexify the implementation, hence delay it. - Adding features in an incremental way could be a good idea
Cheers, Camille On 26/03/2012 06:56, Andrew Pullins wrote: > Hello > > >> I'm also convinced it would be a nice feature to have, but the drawback >> would be increasing complexity of the interface and complexity of >> implementation (I said "performance" on IRC which is only part of the >> problem). >> > how complex is having both my custom colors and the colors used in the > document. besides the way I see it, the document colors would > only appear when there is different colors then black #0000FF. so only the > people who change the colors to something would even see this part of the > color picker. and those who do have multiple colors may appreciated not > having to recreate that exact blue they need. > > I think we all agree that we need a solution to re-use a color that is used >> in the document and that is not present in the palette. >> > why not? where else would it go, where else would you expect it to be. I > would only expect such a feature to be in the color picker. > > IMHO, in most cases, the user wants to re-use a color of an element of the >> document that he actually sees. >> I the mockup I suggested, you have to select the element, click "other", >> add this color to your palette, and then apply it. > > so under your mockup/idea, you think that the user should select some text > that is company blue, then go to the color picker > more colors > add to > custom colors then go to where ever else they want to use that blue and > then select it and then change its color to the blue in their custom > colors... that is way to complicated for any user to have to go though to > reuse the same color, even if they only have to do it once. secondly what > if you give me a doc to work on, I do not want to have all of your colors > saved in my custom colors. > > >> It's sub-optimal, but it's rather easy to implement and it's already a >> significant improvement over the current situation. > > anything is better then our current color picker, expectantly seance you > have to predefined them in the programs options menu. > > I'm really convinced that we should have a realistic approach so that we >> can have quickly in the code changes that make a bit difference. > > I have no idea what you mean by this. > > Cheers, > Andrew > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
