GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 689143
Use a custom color palette
Last modified: 2018-05-04 12:04:56 UTC
When setting the color for a note, the color selection dialog presents the default color palette. This contains many colors that don't work for notes. The colors should be light enough to be able to let someone easily read the note text, and should not distract. Two colors are used in the mockups: eff2d1 and d2dbe6. We will need a larger set of colors for this (maybe 6?) I'm CC'ing some visual designers so they can suggest some extra colors.
Allan, we might even want to offer a palette of css : meaning both background color and eventually associated font color. And maybe more? This could provide the user a set of about 6 differents notes "flavour". In such case : Also, do we want to allow power user adding some personal stylesheet to something like home/user/.config/bijiben/custom_css/ ?
Also, should we propose some accessibility dedicated color? or rather rely on the window manager for this?
Hey Pierre-Yves, We should definitely make sure that Bijiben works with the high contrast theme. Cosimo might be able offer some advice there. I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to let people change the font color, tbh. The background color is intended to help people differentiate different notes. Changing the font color is more of an aesthetic decision. A notes app isn't really about formatting. Focusing on letting people record information and not get sidetracked by choosing fonts and colors seems like a more powerful approach to me. (This is something that Tomboy got right, in my opinion.)
"I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to let people change the font color" Yep I meant : always associate a font color with one given background since currently on darker background, text is less visible. But I guess this depends on yet-to-be-proposed colors. On pastel colors this is not an issue.
(In reply to comment #4) > "I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to let people change the font color" > > Yep I meant : always associate a font color with one given background since > currently on darker background, text is less visible. But I guess this depends > on yet-to-be-proposed colors. On pastel colors this is not an issue. Ah right. Yes, I'd just stick to light background colors.
I think as long as the default background set is light enough for the text to be readable on them, we don't need to do anything special for HighContrast - setting the theme would change the chrome as usual, but the note content would still be readable.
Default color is eff2d1 thus, light. (Or close to -> note to myself: fix rgb values to be precisely 239, 242, 209.) If bijiben is to take care of accessibility itself for note colors, among the small palette, I suppose we have to offer "white text over black background".
(In reply to comment #7) > If bijiben is to take care of accessibility itself for note colors, among the > small palette, I suppose we have to offer "white text over black background". It should just respect the system-wide high contrast theme, no?
What I'm saying is we shouldn't need any special case in Bijiben for accessible themes if the background colors set we offer has enough contrast in itself. Theming for the rest of the application should just work out of the box.
I just pushed some lazy interpretation of this discussion: add a custom palette, but stick to standard gtk color button and standard gtk color dialog. The user knows this dialog and will just see specific colors for bijiben. On the other hand, a rather different dialog, dedicated to bijiben, might be nice too (for example, with note preview).
The pallets don't work fine i think it should remove the mark from the old color but it don't.
Thanks Sobhan, I completly forgot that one. Commit 03fecea0d31fd9a6f6a5a934ea6619055e1f9b02
(In reply to comment #0) > Two colors are used in the mockups: eff2d1 and d2dbe6. We will need a larger > set of colors for this (maybe 6?) I'm CC'ing some visual designers so they can > suggest some extra colors. we still need to define the colors --> NEEDINFO
(In reply to comment #13) > we still need to define the colors --> NEEDINFO Anyone of the visual designers in for doing this?
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