Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 33392
Options -> Colors needs buttons to load a color palette or should be able to load the color palette from more places
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:36:04 UTC
Options -> Colors needs buttons to load a color palette When editing an actual object in a document, i.e. a rect on a drawing, you can go to the area property, color and there are buttons to load/save a color palette. This option would make sence in the global Options -> colors dialog. I'd like to be able to define (load) a color palette that is used in all applications
Please have a look at Issue 11098 and at Issue 27722, not the same but related.
changed to issuetype to enhancement reassign to bh
I am confirming, that this does not currently exist. I think this is a very good idea. Right now the only way to change the palette is to draw an object and then edit the colors within those context menus. So for instance, I want to set the background of a calc cell. I want to use something from sun-color.soc palette. I have to draw a rectangle, change the palette there and then change the cell background. Additionally, the loaded palette does not transfer between components. So, if I load the sun-color.soc palette in calc, writer is still in the standard.soc palette. Which I guess doesn't really matter. The problem I guess I see now after typing is that if you change the palette in Tools > Options then every other component will change also which may not be the desired functions. What a better solution might be would be to always include the load/save palette options anytime color can be changed. This would be a step in the right directions. Or add the color palette options to each sub components options. This is a very much more complex issue then I first thought.
is seems strange to have to create a shape to set a colour list - I suggest moving the colour options into component options
*** Issue 27722 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I have closed 27722, for to focus on 1 issue. But the request here should not persists in Tools - Options, because the palettes are a per document setting. (If the work on issue 20127, is restarted, it should consider this request. Issue 20127 dealed with redesign of Tools-Options to distingush between general and per document settings.)
Add me to CC.
setting keywords, reassigning
*** Issue 86703 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 57131 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
To manage the many suggestions for enhancing the color palette, I have created a meta-issue here: Issue 105642 - Re-design and UI improvements for color palettes (meta-issue) The purpose of the new issue is for management only, it does not duplicate specific design requests (that we wish to capture). Many thanks, Andrew