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On 5/24/06, bulia byak wrote:
Thanks. But if we are to share palettes with the GIMP, I see at least 3 problems:
- There are too many. Our palette menu will become unwieldy.
Would some kind of categorization (therefore submenus) be helpful, if possible?
- Some of the palettes are GIMP-specific and less than useful for us:
they are designed for two-dimensional presentation with a fixed width, with lots of repeated values. I had to uniq all the palettes I took from GIMP to make them more suitable for Inkscape.
It is possible to find a technical solution for this, but what is more important for a user - to have all palettes on one place or to (sometimes) see an extra palette he would not use?
- Most GIMP palettes have "Untitled" as the name of the color, which
in Inkscape is shown in the tooltip. To make this tooltip useful, I replaced all such names with #RRGGBB.
This can and will be fixed. I will add it to roadmap for 0.2.0.
Work on a new file format for palettes is planned [1]. If you have any related thoughts to share, please don't hesitate to do so :)
[1] http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Swatches_-_colour_file_format
Alexandre