2010/7/8 bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>:
Therefore I would focus on adding a button to the right of the colour palette bar to access a new dialog consisting of part of the Fill and stroke dialog (I stress "part" because of interface complexity).
I think that's a cure that is much worse than the disease. Instead of the mild inconvenience of scrolling, you will have a major inconvenience of a whole new dialog, confusingly similar but-not-quite to an existing dialog.
No. Not necesserely at all. ;-) see below.
the new dialog window would default to show the colour wheel (the other three colour selection methods RGB, CMYK, and HSV would be present as well in tabs).
You seem to miss the point of a palette. It's not there to provide you access to _any_ color. If that was so, indeed a single color wheel would work better. But the palette is there to give you _reproducible_ color points. If you clicked some color, you can remember what you clicked and click it again for the exact same color. That is something color wheel cannot do.
Yes, because you can have some 10 or 20 entries in a custom colour palette where you store your own frequently used palettes. With one click away from the colour wheel, you should be able to save a colour in some new custom palette (either integrated in the rest of the palette UI or lets say a clearly always visible and distint small palette at the left of the palette bar at the bottom). Such a thing is imho a really missing feature.