On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Andy Fitzsimon <andyfitz@...400...> wrote:
Here's what i recommend:
Kill: gray, blues, gold, green, reds, royal. hilte, topographic, khaki, and inkscape-default (its a bad default)
I would agree to remove a few of the single-hue palettes - they are mostly demonstrations that this (single-hue) is possible, it's not very likely that someone will use exactly these hues.
Gray must stay no matter what. It's really fundamental. Blues and reds can go, if you really insist. Greens is actually multi-hue so is more useful.
Other multi-hues are all non-trivial and therefore interesting. I really don't see why we must drop them. See, the palette is not only something you pick predefined colors from. It's something that influences your thinking as you draw, and thus the art you produce.
Keep, tango, echo, ubuntu, XP, latex, websafe22, webhex
So basically, your proposal can be described thus: remove all palettes with color-related names and color-meaningful colors, and only leave those named in technial mumbo-jumbo, with colors defined by some third-party technical artefacts :)
Sorry but I object.
Add: Android palette (below) and fedora's echo palette
You're welcome to add them.
I also suggest we default to either tango, android, or ubuntu.
Oh no.
Inkscape is not a Tango editor. It is not an Android editor. It is a general-purpose vector editor, and its default palette therefore tries to strike a balance between size and color coverage, ignoring any technical limitations of any third-party icon sets or interfaces. If you want to design to these limitations, you can. But making them the default is the same as making Comic Sans a default font in text editor.
doesnt matter which one. only that we simplyfy the range of colours being displayed by default so that artists can quickly pickup a few primary hues.
The default palette has a section with primary hues. If they are frequently insufficient, let's discuss expanding that section. But the it must contain really _primary_ colors, not some "tango" or "android" colors.