GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 97616
Confusing that "pallette editor" is used to select colors from pallettes
Last modified: 2006-08-07 14:44:13 UTC
The palette tab/dialog lets you select, edit, and create palettes, but I cannot find a place to choose colors from the current palette. This is probably as simple as the 'select' tab of the 1.2 palettes dialog not being exposed yet? This is cvs as of oct. 27
Double-click a palette in the Palettes list to open the Palette editor. Pick a color from the palette preview. Is that what you are missing?
Yes, that works. What is confusing to me is that once I select a palette in the <images>->palettes dialog, it is not clear what I must do to choose colors from that palette. It did not occur to me to try selecting colors in the Palette Editor dialog. My suggestion for how I might expect it to work is: a) the palette editor window be renamed to simply "palette" b) the dialogs->palettes command bring up this dialog c) a 'select' button would be used from there to open the "palette list' dialog. Does that make sense?
Actually, that won't work. Changing the selected palette does not change the palette displayed in the palette editor window. This means that to change palettes, I need to select the palette double click it or click the edit button delete the old palette editor dock drag the new palette editor dock to where i had the old one set up I'm sure this is not a common thing for the average user to do, but I like switching among my flesh tones and other colors. Would it make sense to simply have a "palette" dock that tracks the currently selected palette? Of course you wouldn't want all the palette editors tracking the selected palette.
Changes at the request of Dave Neary on the developer mailing list. I am changing many of the bugzilla reports that have not specified a target milestone to Future milestone. Hope that is acceptable.
what are you doing to break the normal behaviour? i can doubleclick on a palette, and it shows up in the palette editor. it doesn't create a new palette-editor dock. i have the palette-editor docked to the toolbox, and the palette-list docked to the toolbox. what is your docking setup? maybe this problem only occurs with particular arrangements of docks.
Or maybe this happened back in 2002... :) The current behaviour seems to work quite acceptably. Can this bug be closed?
IMO there's still room for improvement when it comes to handling Palettes.
Since this report doesn't have make any specific suggestions on how to improve the palette UI, and since the main problem seems to have been fixed, I will close it as FIXED now.
It is still not very intuitive that you must _edit_ a palette in order to _use_ it. What about the suggestions in Comment #2? They sound very reasonable to me.
A patch will make it more likely that this is considered for future GIMP versions...
Revising summary to reflect the remaining issue, and upgrading target from Future to 2.6.
I think solution from bug #346884 should solve this problem
Let's close this one as a duplicate of bug #346884 then. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 346884 ***