Pop up palette recent colour

[Ed .]

Personally I think having the triangle selector at the centre is the most convenient. I like boud's idea of having the option of switching the sorting method (maybe using the scroll wheel). Even better, when the sorting method changes, the colors fly to their position using Qt 4.6 animation capabilities :)

> To: kimageshop at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Pop up palette recent colour
> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:47:59 +0100
> From: nospam at xibo.at
> 
> why not as popups without a titlebar. these would disappear, when clicking  
> on the canvas or moving the mouse out of the popup (whatever is more  
> convenient). a transparent background would even remove the grey area.
> 
> i created a little mockup, see attachment..
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:45:36 +0100, Vera Lukman <shicmap at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > hmm.. that would be great actually.. but I wonder how we can modify the
> > existing widget.. thoughts are welcome
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>  
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday 28 January 2010, Vera Lukman wrote:
> >> > Great. I can use that.
> >> >
> >> > KisPopupPalette is a class inherited from QWidget, everything there is
> >> > painted using QPainter. I wonder if it is possible to add
> >> > KoTriangleColorSelector in KisPopupPalette. I have thought about  
> >> putting
> >> > the 2 widgets in a QLayout object, but I don't think it is possible to
> >> put
> >> > KoTriangleColorSelector in the center of KisPopupPalette because I  
> >> don't
> >> > think we can put 2 widgets on top of each other in a QLayout.
> >> >
> >> > Another thing to consider is, if I want to enable easy access to
> >> something
> >> > else using the pop up palette (eg. easy access to current brush
> >> settings),
> >> > it will be hard to do if I have the colour selector on the pop up
> >> palette.
> >> > Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> I would love it if there was a way to cycle between color selection  
> >> methods
> >> in
> >> the popup, like, it starts with recent colors, click, you get move by
> >> hue/saturation etc. from current color, click, it shows complementary
> >> colors.
> >>
> >> Of course, it's not original... Mypaint has something like that.
> >>
> >>
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