Re: [libreoffice-design] Fwd: Color palette generator

Hi Heiko,

Yes, a few days ago I saw that bug. Sadly, I name colors by its actual
position in the matrix, in the same way MS Office does (Text 1, Background
1, Emphasis 1, 2, etc). But I had an idea, I'll see it now.

Regards,

Francisco


2016-09-28 6:13 GMT-03:00 Heiko Tietze <tietze.heiko@googlemail.com>:

> Hi Francisco,
>
> great to see your contributions not only the color palette at
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Palette_Fortran_code.odt but
> also all the bug reports and comments on bugzilla. The more people
> have an eye on UX the better we make LibreOffice.
>
> Regarding the palette I'd like to ask you to check
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80196 where
> something similar is being discussed. We have a lot of palettes
> implemented today that are more or less well suited. In particular a
> good naming scheme is necessary to deal with colors - otherwise the
> user needs to remember the RGB values to find the identical color.
> But it would definitely be an interesting idea to have an extension
> that produces the list.
>
> So thanks again, and you are always welcome to the UX hangouts Friday
> afternoon.
>
> Cheers,
> Heiko.
>
> 2016-09-27 22:24 GMT+02:00 Francisco Adrián Sánchez
> <franciscoadriansanchez@gmail.com>:
> > Dear design team,
> >
> > My name is Francisco Sánchez, I'm a chemical engineer who loves doing his
> > work with LibreOffice (even though I'm not always allowed to). Although
> I'm
> > not listed in the design team nor mailing list, I've already contributed
> > some times with a few opinions and even I've presented some Impress
> > templates for the 5.0 conquest.
> >
> > I've used OOs since 2009, and one thing that I had always missed from MS
> > Office was the ability to generate a color palette from some theme
> colors.
> > Since I'm a chemical engineer that knows Fortran (yes, Fortran) I decided
> > to code an app that were able to read some colors in RGB coordinates
> > generating then a LibreOffice color palette. Since these files are just
> > text files, I though they should be easy to produce using the only
> language
> > I know... Fortran.
> >
> > That said, first I analyzed the gradients that MS Office 2007 produces,
> and
> > correlated the resulting alteration of each coordinate for each gradient.
> > For example, if one base color has a red coordinate of 50, the "clear
> 90%"
> > shadows will have a red value which is a function of 50.
> > Pardon me if I don't know if there's an easier way to do this, it's just
> > what I could do it.
> >
> > Astonishingly, there is a correlation (a polynomial one). Based on the
> > coefficients I got, I coded the following app in Fortran. My app works
> > fairly ok, producing pretty similar results to the one that can be found
> in
> > MS Office.
> >
> > I don't want to type a will here, but if you are interested on it I can
> > email you a link to download the code and some instructions to compile.
> I'm
> > not leaving any link here because I fear that the antispam filter will
> > catch this email. Thus, I've uploaded the code inside an ODT file into
> the
> > Document Foundation Wiki. Thus, if you are interested please look for the
> > file:
> >
> > "File:Palette_Fortran_code.odt".
> >
> > There's an screenshot there also.
> >
> > Last, I'd like to make it clear that I'm not intending to say that you
> > should include this code in LibreOffice, nor that LibreOffice should
> > generate the same palettes than MSOffice does.
> >
> > However, I found my app quite useful for my proposes. Also, I know that
> > some of you are already dealing with document themes. So, I think that
> the
> > idea behind it could be useful for you also.
> >
> > That said, I wish you will have a nice weekend.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Francisco
> >
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