I think we should stick with the "Gnumeric" colours by default. Whether Tango colours are "sexy" or not is surely in the eye of the beholder. I suggest "wontfix".

If one decided to change the colour scheme one would also need to make sure that that does not change the colours of graphs already saved in Gnumeric files.

Dupe of bug 531070?

Just to make it clear, I'm not suggesting to replace the color grid in the color picker; I'm simply suggesting that the default chart elements have some "less bland" colors by default if the user doesn't touch them.

Whatsmore, I discovered that you cannot easily, as a user, change the colors individually inside the areas of pie chart, for example. To me, that is an additional argument for "making the colors more attractive by default".

Maybe a new "tango" theme could be used and the current theme be renamed "classic"?

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screenshot from gnumeric

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Your screenshots are persuasive. I would be very unhappy to see something quite as garish as the OOo pie chart as the default. The data ought to be emphasized not the colours. I find that OOo colours make it much more difficult to compare the area then Gnumeric's subdued colours.

Perhaps we really just need a way to switch colour themes easily, as suggested in bug 531070.

Just to emphasize it a bit more. To me the bright yellow (?) are in the OOo plot looks (much) larger than the green area, because of its brightness, but from th numbeers it is clear that it is smaller.

This will be fixed when themes from files will work.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 531070 ***