On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:30:17 -0600, Regina Henschel
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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=".." />
Actually is even easier, scribus also store their color palette in XML, we
just need to do a small script to convert from the scribus nodes to the
draw nodes. I created a wikipage with the definitions of the origial draw
XML and the scribus one, also put the sed script to convert the nodes from
scribus to OOo:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ES/Desarrollo/PaletaColores
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.
Well If you look at applications like scribus they do also have a dropdown
box. Granted their box is more like a panel, similar to the way Impress
list their animations or transitions.
I think arranging the colors is not a crucial issue is just a matter of
changing the widget from a dropdown to a a grid.
kind regards
Regina
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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