Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 69900
Color picker should indicate the current setting
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:32:24 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.
Same as issue 61816. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 61816 ***
Closing duoplicate.
> 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.
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.
You are right; reopened issue.
Reassigned to requirements.
*** Issue 116834 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***