> One of the things I have been hoping would change at some point is the > way that colors are presented. > As it stands now, you are given an alphabetical listing of colors, with > no ability to rearrange according any sort of palette scheme (unless > one > artificially renamed them all). > > Is there a way to arrange by RGB/CMYK value? Would others find that > useful? Maybe hue/saturation?
I'm used to working in documents that have 3-5 colors. With a list that short, the actual color arrangement in the list is of little consequence. As a matter of habit, I always remove all unused colors, especially before sending a job to press-assuming I'm sending native files. > I also find that even though I may want access to the entire list of > colors, I would prefer to have a much shorter working list on a given > project. So, for example, there could be two color requestors, a > working list and a repository, from which I could pluck colors at any > time to add to my working list. This seems to especially come up when > I > am editing an old file, from which I got rid of all unused colors, but > I'd like to switch or add one from the master list -- maybe not sure > which one, either. The repository would not have to be saved with the > scribus file, ever, since it has to do with the program, not the file > content. The color palette in 1.2.1 functions in a way that I find very useful. I can remove all unused colors, then go back and add a new one. The color picker allows me to select from the different color sets (X11, Gnome, SVG). Has this feature been removed in 1.3? > It might also be useful to have some kind of indicator to show which > colors are actually in use in a project, realizing of course that this > would be subject to a kind of error in which I may have used a text > color for one character that turned out to be a space, but that's a > minor problem. This comes up like this: I might be wanting to use a > color I used several pages ago, and I know it was a aquamarine-like > color, but which one? Now all I can do is go back and highlight the > instance to figure it out. > > I'll be interested to hear if others have similar or better ideas. A "show used colors" function would be useful, even more useful would be a "show instances" function for tracking down that one item that's using a color you don't want anymore. -- Joe "Rydel"
