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Bug 246240 - Color selector buttons unlike normal GNOME ones
Color selector buttons unlike normal GNOME ones
Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other other
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Anna Marie Dirks
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 246224
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-13 21:55 UTC by Eugene O'Connor
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Eugene O'Connor 2003-07-13 21:55:10 UTC
The following dialogs contain color selector buttons:
- Properties: Text dialog (To open, choose File > New > Mail Message, then 
choose Format > Text.)
- Properties: Page dialog (To open, choose File > New > Mail Message, then 
choose Format > Page.)

The color selector button, and the technique for choosing colors, is 
different from the normal GNOME color selector buttons. For example, 
compare them to selecting a color for a panel (right-click on the panel 
and choose Properties, click on the Background tab, select color from the 
Background type drop-down list. The Background color button here is 
different from the ones in the dialogs I mention above.

It would be good if these were consistent.

This bug blocks bug 246224.
Comment 1 Anna Marie Dirks 2003-09-18 17:30:36 UTC
The colors listed in the color selector are a subset of the "web-safe"
ones, presumbaly because the composer is based on an HTML editor. 

If you click the "custom color" button in the bottom of the dropdown
matrix, you'll get the standard gnome color picker. 

The problem for us is that there is no standard widget to do what we
want to do in the composer -- offer a list of commonly used colors,
and the ability to specify any color.

What do you think about this? 
Comment 2 Eugene O'Connor 2003-10-08 12:21:29 UTC
Somehow I missed that the Custom Color button at the bottom opens the
standard GNOME way to choose colors. It sounds like these are two
different functions:

- Choose websafe color
- Choose non-websafe color

I think this is something that needs to be dealt with in the
documentation. Closing the bug.