IMHO, one of GNOME key features is ease of use. Having 20 or even more colors is not acceptable if a user wants to customize the theme. 8 color are already a lot (there was quite some discussion about eg. automatically selecting a text color).

Things like this can of course be provided by third party applications (for example gnome-color-chooser which creates a custom .gtkrc-2.0 files).


No idea about import of color schemes. We currently have no mechanism to store gnome color schemes, so as long as this does not exist there is not much of a point. It may be possible to create an importer. It would need to handle the fact that GNOME has a lot less colors in the color scheme thoug.

My guess is that there is no point in doing this though. As we could never achieve something from GNOME to eg. automatically pick up the KDE/irix/whatever colors.

Closing as WONTFIX. If you really think that an importer that only works for the limitted amount of colors makes sense in the gnome-appearence-properties, feel free to reopen the bug. (Though it should be reassigned to gnome-control-center then.)

well, in my oppinion, if were possible adding these 6 colours at gtkrc, i'm not seeing how impossible is adding another 20

For having an idea, i had to create a python script would import these irix or kde colour schemes to gtkrc, but it creates a huge ammount of .xpm files for these buttons, sliders, progress bar, etc. - having these 20+ colours available would make us having colourschemes instead of full themes, taking much less diskspace and files/disk-clusters - and having all these colours, of course there's a point including an importer, since .basecolorpalette and .kcsrc are simple text files, i think not difficult to be parsed into gnome, and even Gnome having its own colour scheme format 

just an idea about how impressive they may look:
http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/bitmapdump/sections/Gallery/01_o.jpg
(and it's not the best example)
In my oppinion it makes a huge difference!  it's the difference between a far smell of colour scheme, and a really usability of a colour scheme - a difference between grape juice and a vintage wine

I (and for sure, not only me) will really love Gnome having these all colours available 

I think if it's really important Gnome having a colour scheme feature, it's as well important having all these colours available - Gnome coders, please consider this, really

Thanks! :-)

another better idea can be seen from a video i posted at youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R776CFF08_E

(this were created from a sdlBasic script which creates .basecolorpalette/.kcsrc files as well .xpm files which were loaded again from sdlBasic for displaying - this video i created with ffmpeg with these .xpm picture sequence)

This helps to understand why a colour scheme plenty of colours is so impressive that Gnome should get it implemented

All people agree with this oppinion please let us know in this topic too, please - Gnome deserves being this impressive! :-)

(In reply to comment #2)
> well, in my oppinion, if were possible adding these 6 colours at gtkrc, i'm not
> seeing how impossible is adding another 20

The real problem is the user interface. Having 20 or more colors in the dialog makes it hard to do simple changes to the color scheme. The current set of colors enables the user to modify their theme easily. This is a tradeoff between usability and how good the interface can be customized.

You can always create themes that make use of more symbolic colors. However they will not be configurable with gnome-appearance-properties. They could only be customized with an extra program or by modifying gconf directly. (Though writing such a theme is not going to be trivial, as you need a lot of styles and apply them correctly.)