Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 89896
Dispense with color names in toolbar Area/Line color picker
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:41:42 UTC
IDEA: Take out the names from the Area Style/Filling and Line Color tools. Present colours in table form, like in text color selection. Rationale: The colour shown on the screen itself tells me more about it than the name of the colour. Name is redundant. "Turquoise 1" is useless to me. A shade of turquoise on the screen does. Benefits: Save screen estate, dispense with scrolling, easier to FIND and pick colors... even if the palette sorted the colours frustratingly illogically and unintuitively (e.g. why are Yellow and Brown so far from other shades of Yellow? It can be frustrating if you spend hours scrolling from Yellow 1 to Yellow 8 not finding the pure yellow). It will be particularly helpful if colours have been randomly placed all over a custom palette. I repeat: It can be frustrating if you spend hours scrolling from Yellow 1 to Yellow 8 not finding the pure yellow. So don't let the user scroll. Give him a table. Thank you.
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