On 1/29/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> wrote:
Would it perhaps be clearer to get rid of the labels entirely and just show a rectangle or other shape in the fill color, with a border in the stroke color (if any)?
I don't think so, because you can't make it large enough for the color to be visible enough. The current layout presents wide enough swatches for both colors which can be quickly identified even with a quick sideways glance. If one of the colors will be applied to a thin frame, it will be much more frustrating to try to find out what color it really is. More importantly, now each of the swatches can display a text label - "None", "Unset", etc. - which you can't fit into such a "frame swatch". Also each swatch now displays a gradient preview with an "L" or "R" prefix to indicate linear and radial (elliptic). Not only you cannot fit these letters into the framed swatch, but without them, in many cases it's difficult to tell a slight gradient from a flat color, especially if applied to the stroke.