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jiho wrote:
On 18 Apr 2006, at 16:06 , Nicu Buculei wrote:
jiho wrote:
- add a way to build some custom palettes, which would be stored as a
(xml?) file. The intend of this is to have to possibility to post them somewhere on the web site and exchange color palettes between users. So this requires also a simple interface to add a downloaded palette to the menu (like a Add palette... menu item).
You can do this right now:
- the color palettes are defined in a simple text file, the same
format used also by GIMP (very important!). the structure is so simple, that making a program to edit them is trivial;
- you can already post those files (*.gpl) on a website, all an user
needs to do is to download the file in ~/inkscape/palettes/ and restart Inkscape
ok, that's great, so the functionality is there, only the GUI is lacking! I think it is true for many inkscape feature sadly.
It can be argued if this GUI is really useful or feature bloat.
for this particular point, what I was thinking about is:
- a "New palette" menu item and then add colors to the new palette by
drag and drop from objects on the canvas. I could build the palette by hand for sure but this would be much more productive ;-). This would also need the possibility to reorganize the colors in the palette by drag and drop (Ex: I want to add a new violet and my violets are in the middle of the palette).
See the list archives, some cool features are planed for palettes, like linked colors.
- a dedicated part of inkscape web site to post and download them, with
as simple preview engine. maybe this can be done with media wiki but I do not know much about media wiki.
We can link to palette files from our blogs, see this as a way to promote Inkscape :p (at least this is what i did)
thanks for the tip anyway, I will try to build a new palette just to test this for my own purpose.
Here are two palettes from me: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/bluecurve.gpl http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/gnome_hig.gpl