Re: [libreoffice-users] meager color options

Well, if I knew were the color listing is stored, i.e. the user defined
colors, I would see about making a file or something that would have all
of the colors that are listed on my linked PDF file.

These names and their matching hex codes were part of a set of web page
color definitions.  I have a number of PDF files with the list of names
and hex codes listed in the defined colors, where each PDF file has a
different background color.  This helped me with defining a palette of
colors to use for a web page based on what looks good and not good with
the defined background image or color.  What looks good with a white
background may not look good with an "off white" one that leans toward a
slight blue shade of white.

So if someone could take this list of color names and color hex codes
and add them to the "color table" or make a second table of colors for
us to use.

In the "Options / LibreOffice / Colors" dialog, the color table is
labeled "Table : standard".  This seems to indicate that you can change
the "table" to something that is "not standard" or "user defined".  The
colors are defined by RGB "Decimal" instead of Hex, but it can be easy
to change Hex to Decimal. 

So, is there a way to change the "Table : standard" to "Table : user
defined" or a way to import a set of color names and RGB code?  Of are
you required to type in 20 or 40 of these manually?

I ask this, since I had a number of user defined colors that I typed in
a number of months ago and none of them were saved from the 3.6.5[?]
version and included with the 4.0.x version.  If I add them to the list
this week, will I have to retype them in when I finally go to 4.1.4 or .5?

It would be nice to have all of these user defined colors in some config
file that I can save and edit, that can be used in the next version or
line of LO, without needing all my user defined colors needing to be
retyped.  Actually, I did not give the colors names, just listed their
Hex code as the color names. 

YES, having a color wheel would be nice for a color picker, but for
those that have defined text colors, like our official brochure's
defined green text color, we need an easy way to add and edit these user
defined colors and a way to make sure these colors are listed in each
version of LO we install, like going from 4.0.6 to 4.1.5 and still have
the colors available to use.

On 11/04/2013 05:48 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)  
> I'm glad to hear we have a wider range of colours than i thought.  
>
> I'd really like to see a colour-wheel and hex input but the thing i
> miss most is a pipette to grab colour from anywhere on the screen.
>  Gimp has one and i miss it in Draw.  I've always assumed it was just
> waiting for someone to post a bug-report about.  
> Regards from
> Tom :)  
>
>
> On 4 November 2013 21:30, Kracked_P_P---webmaster
> <webmaster@krackedpress.com <mailto:webmaster@krackedpress.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     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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