> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Joshua Pettus <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [XBoard-devel] 4.9.0 what's new
> Date: April 2, 2016 at 9:55:34 AM EDT
> To: "H.G. Muller" <[email protected]>
>
> What I see happening is people trying a new color, not quite liking the shade
> on the board itself (or relative to the other square), going back and finding
> the color they selected is gone. As you say, people making drastic changes
> won’t care where it starts, but people making fine adjustments will.
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>> On Apr 2, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Joshua Pettus <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 2, 2016, at 3:24 AM, H.G. Muller <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Op 4/2/2016 om 1:55 AM schreef Joshua Pettus:
>>>> One more thing,
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>>>> Wouldn’t it be better if the starting color was the current color rather
>>>> then black?
>>>>
>>> Well, I wasn't sure that there would be any advantage to that (since the
>>> current color was already displayed).
>>> It doesn't seem more likely that people would want a color close to the
>>> old; if they mind enough to want it
>>> changed, they usually want something completely different. So any starting
>>> point seems as good as any other.
>>>
>>> If the Board dialog did contain nothing for each color than this button,
>>> the sensible thing to do would
>>> be to start them in the default color of the option they control, so that
>>> people could just OK it to reset.
>>> But because of the way this has evolved we have redundant
>>> text-representation and reset buttons
>>> outside the picker dialog, and resetting by opening the dialog first is
>>> only cumbersome.
>>
>> Maybe you’re right, regarding the eyedroper. I wonder if gimp hangs when
>> it’s pressed. If not. what do they do differently? I’ll try to find this
>> out for you.
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