Re: [libreoffice-users] adding / using custom colours to LibreOffice

On 09/10/17 02:20 PM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Gary Dale schrieb:
> > I'm using 5.4.1.2.0+ on a Debian/Buster AMD64 system.
> >
> > I volunteer with several organizations, some of whom have standard
> > colours that I would like to add to the LibreOffice colour palette.
> > However the formerly available Tools | Options | Colors customization
> > feature seems to have disappeared.
>
> Yes it was removed to reduce complexity for normal users.
>
> > I noticed that the font colour chooser allows you to use custom colours
> > but not add them to the palette. While usable, it's not a good solution
> > when you are going to be using the same colours repeatedly.
>
> If you, as single user, need a color repeatedly, then you can add this 
> color to your personal palette "Custom". It is not a real palette, but 
> part of your personal registrymodifications.xcu. This file holds the 
> recent colors too. But a normal user does not need to know these details.
>
> > After more googling, I eventually found a way of adding custom colours -
> > by creating a shape then right-clicking on it and selecting area. This
> > allows me to add colours to the custom palette (and apparently only the
> > custom palette - even if I select a different palette, the new colour
> > ends up in custom).
>
> If you want to maintain "corporate identity" colors, storing them in 
> "custom" is wrong anyway. So do not try to find any "tricks".
>
> You should use a *.soc file stored in share/palette for those colors. 
> You can add the colors to one of the existing files or make a totally 
> new such file.
> The file is a simple xml-file and can be edit with any editor.
>
> You only need to add one line per color following the example
> <draw:color draw:name="Black" draw:color="#000000" />
> Instead of "Black" you write the text, which the user will see.
> Instead of 000000 you write the code, which you see in the 'Hex' field 
> in the Area > Color dialog. If you work in Draw you can use Format > 
> Area without any need of a shape.
>
> That way each user, who will use LibreOffice will get these special 
> colors automatically.
>
> You need writing rights from the OS to change or add files in 
> share/palette.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina

I'm frankly dumbfounded by your explanations. You remove a generally 
useful dialogue to reduce complexity for normal users while 
simultaneously maintaining two different dialogues to set colours, each 
of which looks and works differently. Then you suggest that to do 
something that is in the use case of any normal organizational user 
(i.e. just about anyone who uses a word processor), you suggest 
creating/modifying XML files!

I agree that storing organizational (not necessarily corporate) colours 
in "custom" may not always be the best idea, but given their small 
number in any rational organization, creating a separate palette for 
them is arguably also not a good idea. My preference is to just add them 
to the standard palette and let the colour names identify them.

You've already got all the code you need to address the problem 
properly. Writer's code just isn't organized properly. If it was, you 
wouldn't have the two (maybe more - I haven't really looked) dialogues 
doing largely the same job but neither doing it really well.

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