https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173678
Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|WONTFIX |--- Status|RESOLVED |UNCONFIRMED --- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > It was designed to work like this. Custom color palettes are nothing users > typically care about a lot. That's a bit like saying that custom styles are nothing users typically care about a lot. Which is even true, once you've added "typical" and "a lot". But we offer facilities for editing styles, make them abundantly visible, and encourage people to use them. Well, palettes are also a kind of "style" of your document. And we should encourage users, who use color at all, to prefer palettes over choosing individual styles in different scenarios - which is the equivalent of "direct formatting" In Impress, like in PowertPoint, people care a whole lot about color palettes. The choice of color palette is feature prominently in the 'Design' ribbon of PowerPoint - the clickable present slide designs involve a color palettes choice, and their mini-previews show boxes with colors from the palette. See screenshot. There is also a per-slide-master color palette selection. In Calc, this is less ubiquitous, but palettes are important for: * Categorization of cells/rows * Conditional formatting * Chart colors > And the macros around this topic are sufficient for any workflow. Absolutely not. > The summary also talks about document colors, which is a completely > different topic. It talks about color palettes. From a user's perspective "document colors" and "a document's color palette" are the same thing. (In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #1) > Looking into extensions and template might give solutions. > There, you can find a PaletteMaker template that was developed precisely for > that. It's there: > https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/palettemaker That is... well, it's not nothing, but: 1. It's quite rudimentary, i.e. it doesn't have a custom UI, it relies on opening a Calc window and some macros (which gets me in trouble with Macro security) 2. It is intended for pretty advanced users w.r.t. usability 3. It does not address the need for users to be able to browse and choose from various color palettes. 4. Most users would not notice the existence of this, nor consider going looking for an extension for this purpose (as opposed to looking for a theme, or a tax form calculator, etc.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
