Pop up palette recent colour

[Adam]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:44:47 +0100, Vera Lukman <shicmap at gmail.com> 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.
>
> 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?
Test it and pick the most convenient version :). I assume, that it isn't  
much work to try different signals.
>
>> 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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