Pop up palette recent colour

[Vera Lukman]

> Having the triangle selector in the middle would mean ether a very small
> triangle or very long way from the cursor to the tools/colours. Having it
> as a popup would make it possible to change the selector in the settings,
> which could be a feature in the future.

Yeah, this is what I thought too.. So probably pop up is the best at the
moment.

> 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).

so when does the popup pop? Is it when I hover on a colour? Or using the
'color' button?

> a transparent background would even remove the grey area.
Transparent background is not possible, there is a Qt bug and I hit this bug
2 months ago.

i created a little mockup, see attachment..


> 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.

We can do this by pressing a key. I am not sure what you mean by move by
hue/saturation though. I am not sure how to show complementary colours
either... (What algorithm to do this?)

> Of course, it's not original... Mypaint has something like that.

We don't have to be original :P


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Adam <nospam at xibo.at> wrote:

> Having the triangle selector in the middle would mean ether a very small
> triangle or very long way from the cursor to the tools/colours. Having it
> as a popup would make it possible to change the selector in the settings,
> which could be a feature in the future.
>
> Hm, i just realised, that a popup was Vera's first idea. Well, it sounds
> better to me..
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:14:52 +0100, Ed . <schumifer at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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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