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Bug 163044 - palette edit dialog should allow palettes to be sorted
palette edit dialog should allow palettes to be sorted
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-05 19:24 UTC by Adrian Likins
Modified: 2018-05-24 11:21 UTC
See Also:
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Attachments
Python Script to do the palette sorting (4.61 KB, application/x-python)
2005-02-26 05:42 UTC, Joao S. O. Bueno
Details

Description Adrian Likins 2005-01-05 19:24:51 UTC
It would be handy to allow the palette edit dialog to
sort palettes. 

See http://adrian.gimp.org/patches/gimp-palette-sorting/

There is a patch there that gives the general idea, but
I'll post a cleaned up one later.
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2005-01-13 14:23:16 UTC
Isn't this already handled sufficiently in bug #104639 ?
Comment 2 weskaggs 2005-01-13 19:51:41 UTC
This is clearly a different solution than the one in bug #104639.  The question,
I guess, is how often people would actually use this functionality.  Does having
a palette sorted make it easier to pick the desired color from it?  Are there
other advantages?  The motivation for this is not really explained either in
this bug report or in bug #104639.
Comment 3 weskaggs 2005-02-25 19:17:07 UTC
setting to NEEDINFO because this awaits information and/or a cleaned up patch.
Comment 4 Joao S. O. Bueno 2005-02-26 05:42:14 UTC
Created attachment 37957 [details]
Python Script to do the palette sorting

Attached script does what is being asked. Maybe it could be better placed in
the menus, but I understand that will be addressed altogether.

Note that the script can be used right now by the bug requester and any other
person who needs this feature.
Comment 5 Adrian Likins 2005-03-09 19:18:31 UTC
Ideally, this would be well integrated into the ui. Various scripts exist to
sort the palletes externally or via the PDB, but the ui is still kind of unobvious. 

The reason to sort pallettes? I found it useful as a way to
break out of patterns when picking colors, since I could get
different views on the same data. That was the primary motivation,
just a simple tool to potentially help spur some creativity.

It's also based on the painter palette dialog which allows
some sorting options. In the case of painter, the palettes
can also be used as a source of color when painting (similar
to the way you can use gradients now).
Comment 6 Michael Schumacher 2005-04-01 09:29:25 UTC
I think comment #5 justifies to remove the NEEDINFO state.
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 11:21:02 UTC
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