Issue 69900 - Color picker should indicate the current setting
Summary: Color picker should indicate the current setting
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.2
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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: 116834 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2006-09-27 05:36 UTC by Joe Smith
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:32 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Joe Smith 2006-09-27 05:36:26 UTC
Each of the toolbar items "Font Color", "Highlighting" and "Background Color"
employ a pop-up color picker. While the toolbar items show the current status
(either the last-used color or the color at the cursor), the pop-up color picker
does not. It would be helpful if the picker would also indicate which color was
active, the same as shown in the toolbar item.

Rationale:
Let's say I have set the background color of a paragraph to a light gray, but on
further reflection, the color is a little too dark; I want to set it to the next
lighter shade. I click on the "Background Color" item in the toolbar and the
color picker pops up. Which swatch is the right one? I have to remember the
color name I last picked, or I have to guess based on comparing the display of
the current paragraph to the small swatch in the picker--a difficult task for
similar colors. If the picker indicated the current color, as the full Format >
Paragraph > Background dialog does, it would be trivially easy to pick the next
lighter shade.

Supporting enhancement:
Add the current color name to the tooltips for these items. Instead of
"Background Color", the tooltip would read "Background Color: Gray 20%". This
would make it easy to accurately determine the current setting.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-09-27 12:10:24 UTC
Same as issue 61816.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 61816 ***
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2006-09-27 12:24:02 UTC
Closing duoplicate.
Comment 3 Joe Smith 2006-09-27 13:58:20 UTC
> Same as issue 61816.

With respect, I read that issue about 3 times trying to understand what it was
about. Either I still don't understand it, or it's not the same issue. Can you
help me see how they are the same? E.g. the comments there do not even mention
the color picker at all.
Comment 4 Joe Smith 2006-09-27 14:10:46 UTC
I meant to add, there are a number of enhancements to the color picker(s) under
discussion under Issue 7373. Looking through that, I still didn't see any
mention of this specific enhancement, so I filed a separate report.

Fold this one into that larger topic if you like.
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2006-09-27 14:47:21 UTC
You are right; reopened issue.
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2006-09-27 14:48:12 UTC
Reassigned to requirements.
Comment 7 eric.savary 2011-02-06 19:21:01 UTC
*** Issue 116834 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***