Pop up palette recent colour

[Vera Lukman]

Hmm.. should I put this discussion to the forum?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Adam <nospam at xibo.at> wrote:

> 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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