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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems GmbH - Hamburg wrote: > Hi Alexandro, > > this looks like a nice set of colors. Have you make sure that there are no > licence problems with any of these colors/color names? To have this > information is crucial for Open Source contributions to be safe. Also I'm Scribus is GPL software but I will investigate the exact rights for this palette. At the same time > afraid that there are to many colors to be usable with the current > user interface for color picking in OpenOffice.org. I'm very interested in > updating the user interface but resources for this are currently very > rare. Here is a technical question, to what degree is it really create a new interface or could there just be calling a new interface like the palette used for the color markers displaying it on a grid instead of a drop down list. > Best regards, > Christian > > Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> >> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:25:08 -0600, Alexandro Colorado >> wrote: >> >>> So I would like to improve the color table, I think the current color >>> table is too poor compared to graphic software like scribus or karbon. The >>> colors showed by OOo are too narrow to follow. Before pushing the color >>> table to at least a decent ammount of color and also rename the colors to a >>> more appealing palette. I would also like to know why there hasn't been any >>> push to change this. Is there a technical limitation or is it just because >>> this colors are safe for printing and viewing on the screen? >>> >>> Please let me know and also tell me how and where can I submit the >>> expanded color table? >>> >> >> So far this is the future proposal of colors to be included on the >> palette. >> http://alexandro.biz/scribus.png >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkktlXgACgkQxcnEd7EAjl4U/ACgxaGgfPaksgZH4nBdviacDmje pgsAniQxp68KqVIGnapzV3SysfERDFT4 =UqTR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Fernand Vanrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandro, > > Next to the ussability of the current color table there is a more > fundamental problem in OO. When opening a document from a other OO-user its > virtualy impossible to find out the value's of the colors found in this > document. In our company we uses a special macro who imports "standardised" > color table to make sure all "company colors" are the same on every machine. > More important is to have a "colorpicker tool" who picks the color in the > doc and then can be added as a new color to the color table. This sould be > a great step to more professional use off colors in OO > > Greetz > > Fernand > > > > Regina Henschel wrote: >> >> Hi Alexandro, >> >> Alexandro Colorado schrieb: >>> >>> So I would like to improve the color table, I think the current color >>> table is too poor compared to graphic software like scribus or karbon. The >>> colors showed by OOo are too narrow to follow. Before pushing the color >>> table to at least a decent ammount of color and also rename the colors to a >>> more appealing palette. I would also like to know why there hasn't been any >>> push to change this. Is there a technical limitation or is it just because >>> this colors are safe for printing and viewing on the screen? >> >> There might be a problem in the fact, that the colors are often used in >> drop-down-lists. Currently we have up to 130 colors in the lists. Does the >> user want to scroll through more than 600 colors, for example? >> >> There is no technical problem. You can test it easily. Save the >> standard.soc with a new name, open this and another palette file in an >> editor and copy all the elements >> <draw:color draw:name=".." draw:color=".." /> >> together. Mixing standard.soc and html.soc that way gives a nice palette. >> >> The real problem is not to get a lot of colors, but to arrange them in a >> good way. >> >> kind regards >> Regina >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
