GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 365226
toolbox color selector should be enabled by default
Last modified: 2008-01-15 14:09:37 UTC
I have several reports from users who didn't like absence of foreground/background colors indicator by default in 2.3.x. Honestly, I'm all on their side. Take digital photography, drawing, icon design - you need to know current fg/bg color doing any of them. Bring it back to default settings, please. Other information:
It's in the default settings. The FB/BG editor is opened by default.
I think this report refers to the color area below the toolbox, not the editor. And this indeed is not opened by default.
But the Colors editor offers the same functionality. It would be redundant to also use the FG/BG color area in the toolbox. Adding the color area to the toolbox is a waste of screen estate and it also looks ugly.
Are you suggesting to waste even more screen estate if all you need most of the time is just indicator of current FG/BG and a button to reset to defaults? :)
The Colors dialog in in a notebook tab, it can share it's space with other docks. And the inidicator for the current FB/BG color would still be visible. There's a keyboard shortcut for resetting to defaults if you really consider this so important.
We should either close this report as WONTFIX or turn it into a more general request for reviewing the default session that we want to ship with GIMP 2.4.
Can we perhaps discuss this on the gimp-user mailing-list?
Setting on the 2.4 milestone because we need to come to a decision here.
Most people at LGM seem to want it back and although the developers' perspective might not be that relevant here I tend to agree.
Let's put it back then and remove the Colors tab from the default setup. Should we also include other stuff in the toolbox, like the active image indicator?
(In reply to comment #10) > Should we also include other stuff in the toolbox, like the active image > indicator? I think we can safely take the silence as a "no thanks".