Well... I just checked in some changes for the color selector. It needs a little more polish (mode, CMYK types, and the popup to select subsets of possible pickers) but should be ready for some initial testing and use.
Thanks! My initial impressions:
- Do the slider strips have to be so wide (i.e. tall)? I'd like to see them take less vertical space.
- Before, the slider strips expanded horizontally when you resized the fill&stroke dialog. This was nice as it allowed to get a better resolution at the expense of screen space. Now they stay the same length no matter how you resize the window.
- RGB, CMYK, and HSV are all familiar abbreviations to a designer. But "GTK+" is confusing. Is this a new color model? Better call it by what it shows, e.g. "Wheel".
- The sliders are always black and therefore are invisible on dark areas of the strip (this was the problem with the old picker too). They need to be made either e.g. black interior with white outline, or some pseudo 3D, or (as in Gimp) pairs of black triangle at top and white at bottom, or automatically inverting when going from light to dark and back (as is the pointer on the GTK+ wheel).
- The GTK+ selector is shakey: when you move the small circle inside the triangle, the triangle shakes and jitters. I think this is because the color itself produces HSV, but its position is determined by the RGB, and the conversion/rounding errors when the color goes to RGB and back make it unsteady. Can you ensure that the color wheen is connected to the HSV value? Also, when you move the circle to the black or white corners, the triangle snaps to the red, i.e. loses its current hue value. I think this will also be fixed if you make it reflect the HSV value, not RGB.
- BTW when you resize the window, it's the color wheen in the GTK+ tab that must be made larger so you can pick colors with better precision.
- When the fill&stroke dialog has focus, the GTK+ triangle has some ugly non-antialiased one-pixel black border. Without focus, it looks OK, no border.
- In Gimp, a similar GTK+ color wheel also has a small palette where you can remember colors (in the bottom right area). Can we have it, too?
- "Color name" should really be "Hex" or something like that. Besides, it's redundant as we have the RGBA field below.
- The "previously selected color" in the GTK selector is always black. It must reflect the color we got from the program or from preferences; i.e. for "apply to selected objects", when I select a new object, both halves of the color swatch must show the same color, and then the left side should stay the same while the right one is changing.
- The "Mode" switch at the top seems redundant (and incomplete), now that we have the multi-tab interface for different pickers.
- The bottom right button that allows you to select which pickers are shown is also redundant, IMHO. Instead, the color selector must remember (both within and across sessions) the last picker used and show it when activated. With this, removing pickers is not necessary and frees no extra space.
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