Josh Gray Pierre Hébert Here’s the Color Scheme Chooser mock-up.
Josh Gray Pierre Hébert Here’s the Color Scheme Chooser mock-up. Quick and simple. Tap the left box to choose from palette, tap right box to manually pick color. Color Scheme could be edited / switched via a top right edit button. Or a single color could be changed by long tapping it; Color Picker shows up.
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This would makes things quicker for sure. Just to clarify for myself, is the point of this just to have quick access to certain color choices?
When I first read your other post I thought maybe you were talking about selecting a color scheme and then having it apply a predefined set of colors for each field Normal/Selected/Focused.
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What I want to know is how you got that menu in the first place because I don’t have it
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Curtis Sylvester Jr. the magic of photoshop, i’m sure of it.
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Bogdan Tautu Curtis Sylvester Jr. Just Paint.NET, it’s only a mockup image to clarify my suggestion.
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Oh so its not a menu yet but a jpg file you created to look like one. Wow I’m slow, I need coffee
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Jacob Barton As said in the original post, I was thinking of Color Themes like in PowerPoint.
There’s a preset pallette of colors. For texts etc you can in color chooser pick a theme color. Just use a predefined template for testing. If done so, in ribbon tab “Design” it is possible to choose a different color scheme. All items that use a theme color switch to the new scheme’s color. Consistently.
That’s what I have in mind. For example if it were available in LL, all texts could reference i.e. color with index 0, all panel backgrounds color with index 1, header elements background color with index 2. Now there could be a “night” scheme with dark background and light text, a bright “day” scheme (black on white) and “dusk” and “dawn” with reddish or bluish colors.
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So basically: any item can (like now) use a specific color (ARGB hex) or reference a scheme color by it’s index (which would virtually override (not overwrite) the hex color).
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Lutz Linke I’m for day/night color schemes and even based literally on the times (user specified). And this gives me an idea for a new wallpaper setting (more specifically an app) I know I know Pierre Hébert you’re bored with the topic but this is for live wallpaper.
The idea is to have like a solid color during one time during the day and maybe a wallpaper at another time. maybe we could have a single wallpaper at like 5am and then at 6pm have a slideshow complete with dynamic border colors. Something like that
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Curtis Sylvester Jr. Scheduling can be basically done by scripting. I suggest checking time when unlocking.
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Well there you go that’s a start. I’m not talking just for me though, I’m talking for anyone who wants this. Its also just an idea too
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I second Jacob Barton question: it is not clear for me why each attributes should have its own palette setting. If the goal is to apply a theme, then I assume that all attributes should point to the same theme. I mean: internally these colors will have a different color index of course, but is it needed to be able to select the theme individually for each attribute and hence let the user mix themes ?
I would rather see something like a checkbox “use theme value” and somewhere else a combo to select the active theme ?
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Pierre Hébert Now you’ve lost me… What do you mean with “mix themes”? That’s not my intention.
I was thinking of one centrally defined Color Theme/Palette (at desktop level), not a theme per container or item ofcourse. This central theme/palette should be referenced.
What I wanted to suggest in my mockup above: the user can either tap the default color picker to choose a custom hex color. Or tap that palette icon to choose an indexed color from the current palette.
Just as you wrote, “all attributes should point to the same theme”, that’s my intention. So when switching/editing the palette centrally, all items referencing the palette would have that change applied immediately.
Also see my comment here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JoshGray1789/posts/Yeyd1E38DFK
EDIT: Also I wanted to circumvent a checkbox. If a color from the palette is chosen, that one is used. If afterward the color picker is used, the index is removed and the custom color used instead. Implicitly.
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Just posted screenshots from PowerPoint for better understanding:
https://plus.google.com/photos/106201536507820539535/albums/6052909073326114833
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The individual picker on the screenshot let me think that it would be possible to select a different theme for each attribute.
Here is how it would look from the internal data side, I think this will naturally clarify things between developers 😉
1) not mixing: color attribute is:
– boolean: “use active theme” (new)
– int: color
if “use active theme” is true, then use the given color from the theme, otherwise use “color” as usual.
No need to be able to set a custom color index since the app knows for instance that the item “background focused color” need to be matched with the theme “background focused color”.
2) possibly mixing colors, use a full indexed color:
– int: palette color index (new)
– int: color
if “palette color index” is defined, then use the color in the current palette at the given index, otherwise use “color” as usual.
And this includes the ability to change the palette.
As I understand this is a kind of theme without being a theme: this let the user select a color between a given set of colors, but this doesn’t prevent him to switch between these various colors. The theme does not say which color to use for a given styling attribute, but the theme says “here are the colors you can use to style your attributes, choose the one you prefer”. And maybe these colors can be changed without having to modify items again. (This is what I mean by “mixing”, sorry I understand this is not very clear 🙁 )
I think that Josh Gray suggestion doesn’t include another boolean or integer, he just want to replace the color using a palette color picker.
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Variant 2 is exectly what I mean. Just try PowerPoint to understand what I mean. Each color of the palette can be assigned to any element – that’s what you mean by “mixing” I guess.
And that’s a main advantage I think over defining colors for specific elements. More flexible, less redundant and easier to apply. And easier to define.
The “shoutout bubble” in my mockup above it seems was missleading. I was meant to be a popup where the color from the ones shown could be selected (here: for Normal Color). In my example the box for “Selected” visualized the selected palette color and that it’s active (border), the box for “Focused” not active palette but custom color.
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