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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Color selection widget
From:       Casper Boemann <cbr () boemann ! dk>
Date:       2007-05-29 13:30:34
Message-ID: 200705291530.34840.cbr () boemann ! dk
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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
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