From kde-core-devel  Wed Aug 29 19:48:27 2001
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:48:27 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KColorDialog (everybody loves screenshots)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99911491618693

On Wednesday 29 August 2001 12:34 pm, Thomas Zander wrote:
> The point stated is that a certain color picked does not autometically get
> associated with the name given.
> In fact this can not be done since one color can have more then one name.

No, within the context of a palette, the color will always have at most 1 
name.

> In Lennys design this is avoided since the name is removed from the
> color panel, and a color<->name releation is not 1<->1 .
>
> Your worry for using color names with can be solved by creating additional
> color space(s) which use these names to replace the color selection box.
> So we have "RGB", "HSV", "Named Colors" etc.

The name is very much related to the palette so it should appear near the 
palette.

Cheers,
Waldo
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