From koffice-devel Tue May 29 13:30:34 2007 From: Casper Boemann Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:30:34 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Color selection widget Message-Id: <200705291530.34840.cbr () boemann ! dk> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=118044585726742 On Tuesday 29 May 2007 09:31, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Tuesday 29 May 2007 00:38:51 Casper Boemann wrote: > > For those reasons I find that an artist prepared swatch is probably > > still the best way to go, coupled with the "auto color" described in > > the beginning. > > I agree we still need the artist prepared swatches. I never claimed > otherwise. Are you saying we should choose one or the other? Why? Well for me to answer such question I would need to know what other you are refering to. I have not excluded automatic/dynamic suggestions if that is what you mean. However I don't believe that suggestion will work as primary interface: The reason being that it's close to impossible to suggest good colors based on a single color. Take white (which is after all the normal color of paper). What suggestions would you give for that. Just about any saturated color would do. So our suggestion should then be all the colors? A simple approach to suggestions would after just a few suggestions give a very incoherent number of colors. Creating a good selection of colors is something that needs to be thought out in a integrated session. Which is why I suggested to move these kind of suggestions to a swatch management dialog rather than in the primary color selection widget. Thomas, if you believe you can program some artificial intelligence that could suggest good colors then I'd surely welcome it, but simply basing it on color value and one base color is too simplistic imho. Now what I had in mind, apart from moving suggestions to a second level dialog, is to provide a filter on the swatch, so that you can exclude those colors from the presented swatch that doesn't work well with the basecolor. something like: [x] hide colors that don't work on background This option should be present on the primary color selector. Alternatively we could have a slider so the user could control to which extent matching is compared. -- best regards / venlig hilsen Casper Boemann _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel