> Having the triangle selector in the middle would mean ether a very small
> triangle or very long way from the cursor to the tools/colours. Having it
> as a popup would make it possible to change the selector in the settings,
> which could be a feature in the future.

Yeah, this is what I thought too.. So probably pop up is the best at the moment.

> why not as popups without a titlebar. these would disappear, when 
> clicking on the canvas or moving the mouse out of the popup
> (whatever is more convenient). 

so when does the popup pop? Is it when I hover on a colour? Or using the 'color' button?

> a transparent background would even remove the grey area.
Transparent background is not possible, there is a Qt bug and I hit this bug 2 months ago.

i created a little mockup, see attachment..


> I would love it if there was a way to cycle between color selection methods in
> the popup, like, it starts with recent colors, click, you get move by
> hue/saturation etc. from current color, click, it shows complementary colors.

We can do this by pressing a key. I am not sure what you mean by move by hue/saturation though. I am not sure how to show complementary colours either... (What algorithm to do this?)

> Of course, it's not original... Mypaint has something like that.

We don't have to be original :P


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Adam <nospam@xibo.at> wrote:
Having the triangle selector in the middle would mean ether a very small
triangle or very long way from the cursor to the tools/colours. Having it
as a popup would make it possible to change the selector in the settings,
which could be a feature in the future.

Hm, i just realised, that a popup was Vera's first idea. Well, it sounds
better to me..

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:14:52 +0100, Ed . <schumifer@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Personally I think having the triangle selector at the centre is the
> most convenient. I like boud's idea of having the option of switching
> the sorting method (maybe using the scroll wheel). Even better, when the
> sorting method changes, the colors fly to their position using Qt 4.6
> animation capabilities :)
>
>> To: kimageshop@kde.org
>> Subject: Re: Pop up palette recent colour
>> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:47:59 +0100
>> From: nospam@xibo.at
>>
>> why not as popups without a titlebar. these would disappear, when
>> clicking
>> on the canvas or moving the mouse out of the popup (whatever is more
>> convenient). a transparent background would even remove the grey area.
>>
>> i created a little mockup, see attachment..
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:45:36 +0100, Vera Lukman <shicmap@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > hmm.. that would be great actually.. but I wonder how we can modify
>> the
>> > existing widget.. thoughts are welcome
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thursday 28 January 2010, Vera Lukman wrote:
>> >> > Great. I can use that.
>> >> >
>> >> > KisPopupPalette is a class inherited from QWidget, everything
>> there is
>> >> > painted using QPainter. I wonder if it is possible to add
>> >> > KoTriangleColorSelector in KisPopupPalette. I have thought about
>> >> putting
>> >> > the 2 widgets in a QLayout object, but I don't think it is
>> possible to
>> >> put
>> >> > KoTriangleColorSelector in the center of KisPopupPalette because I
>> >> don't
>> >> > think we can put 2 widgets on top of each other in a QLayout.
>> >> >
>> >> > Another thing to consider is, if I want to enable easy access to
>> >> something
>> >> > else using the pop up palette (eg. easy access to current brush
>> >> settings),
>> >> > it will be hard to do if I have the colour selector on the pop up
>> >> palette.
>> >> > Any thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> I would love it if there was a way to cycle between color selection
>> >> methods
>> >> in
>> >> the popup, like, it starts with recent colors, click, you get move by
>> >> hue/saturation etc. from current color, click, it shows complementary
>> >> colors.
>> >>
>> >> Of course, it's not original... Mypaint has something like that.
>> >>
>> >>
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