Re: [libreoffice-users] meager color options

There is an option to include "user defined" colors.  I know this, since
I had to do it for the text color of the "official" brochure we were
working on many months ago.

Tools / Options / LibreOffice / Colors

There are options for Add, Modify, Edit, and Delete colors in the color
"table".

So you can always add a new color to the list, and name it whatever you
wish it to be.

Yes, there are a low number of predefined colors, but I bet if someone
would give a list of names and Hex codes for all of these "non-listed
colors" then maybe they could be added to our font color selection.

I assume you want colors like this:

ORANGE 1 #FFA500
ORANGE 2 #EE9A00
ORANGE 3 CD8500
ORANGE 4 #8B5A00
ORANGE RED 1 #FF4500
ORANGE RED 2 #EE4000
ORANGE RED 3 #CD3700
ORANGE RED 4 #8B2500
ORCHID #DA70D6
ORCHID 1 #FF83FA
ORCHID 2 #EE7AE9
ORCHID 3 #CD69C9
ORCHID 4 #8B4789
....
PAPAYA WHIP #FFEFD5
PEACHPUFF 1 #FFDAB9
PEACHPUFF 2 #EECBAD
PEACHPUFF 3 #CDAF95
PEACHPUFF 4 #8B7765
PINK #FFC0CB
PINK 1 #FFB5C5
PINK 2 #EEA9B8
PINK 3 #CD919E
PINK 4 #8B636C
PLUM #DDA0DD
PLUM 1 #FFBBFF
PLUM 2 #EEAEEE
PLUM 3 #CD96CD
PLUM 4 #8B668B
POWDER BLUE #B0E0E6

This is a 5 page list of names and colors - with 100 different Gray levels.

http://libreoffice-na.us/colors-and-hex.pdf



On 11/04/2013 03:47 PM, baldwin linguas wrote:
> You know, this has been bothering me for a while, but I've never brought it up:
> Why are our color options (for font color, highlight, table
> background, etc.) so limited?
>
> I confess, I know diddley about C++, but how hard would it be to get a
> color wheel,
> or some other means of choosing colors, say like available in Tk
> (tkinter, tcl/tk, etc.
> like shown here: http://zetcode.com/gui/tkinter/dialogs/ You can even
> enter a hexcode.)
> that would give us broader options?
>
> Should I make a feature request?
> Has nobody else never thought of this?
> Or am I missing something, and we have broader options than I think
> (we have 112 colors to choose from for fonts, 6 of which are white).
> Maybe a plugin using tcl/tk or python/tkinter wouldn't be too hard to make?
> (I've played with tcl/tk and python/tkinter, but never trying to make something
> to work with a larger project as a plugin, so not sure how that works).
>
> I love my LO (and OOo before it), but this has long occured to me as a
> glaring oversight, or something.
> Frankly, having not used any proprietary office suite for more than 5
> minutes in the past decade,
> I don't know what options they have for such features, but it seems to me that
> it would be better to have more flexibility in this regard, and it
> shouldn't be overly complex
> to implement (unless I'm sorely mistaken).
>
> Tony


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