On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 06:47:35PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > > > That's not exactly intuitive. But once we find a color palette that's > > > reasonably pleasing to the eye maybe this is not too bad... > > > > > > With the deepest respect to your ability as a developer, Gehad, > neither of > > > these two appears to be the winner, yet. We can do better than this. > > > > > > Which of course means that I need to design a color palette. Then Linus > > > will come in and will create the ONE TRUE color palette and curse > anyone > > > who disagrees, after which some unknown student will create the perfect > > > template that awes us all. > > > > > > OK, maybe I'm over-planning this one... > > > > > > :-) > > > > i try to say away from color, music, food and similar debates as > > everyone seems to have a preference. :-) > > as a rule of thumb, the people with the highest rank and privilege > > should (e.g. the client) should make the picks. > > > > in the case of Subsurface, that would be you and Linus. > > Ha! Rank! Privilege! > > (that means that whenever there's a bill to pay I'm the one to pay it, > right?) > > > this website has a nice search engine which can be used as a starting > point: > > http://www.colourlovers.com/ > > > > for instance, here are some example palettes, from which we can take > > only certain colors: > > http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/617935/Dutch_Seas > > http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1253503/shifting_sands_sea > > I looked at these and many others and nothing seemed to work. > > So I started with the two colors used for the gradient in our logo and > modified their saturation and value, keeping the hue intact. By playing > with this I came up with something that works fairly well for me. > > And falling back on the Rank! and Privilege! comment earlier I pushed a > patch that made this the new default colors. My apologies, this messes > with existing settings as I want this to be index 0 (default) and > inserting this new index at the beginning causes the stored settings to > now be changed. Um. Bad. Oh well. You have been warned. > > > i guess we can bundle something like 3-4-5 color schemes as a start. > > We now have three. > > BTW: when playing around with setting the colors, looking at things, going > back, hitting apply, cancel, etc I several times managed to have a color > (or in one case two colors) reset to #000000 (black). So there is > something fishy here, but I'm not able to give you a deterministic set of > steps to reproduce this :-( > > I could reproduce this, QColor dialog always returns a not valid color when cancel is selected, I will fix this. -- regards, Gehad
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