Working a lot with PowerPoint I thought Color Schemes would be a great addition to LL.
(In follow-up to Josh Gray ‘s suggestion regarding color picker >> https://plus.google.com/113418323387583377848/posts/28pYQWzeQu3 )
I mean: in addition to the usual color picker, it would be possible to choose an indexed color from a color palette (of like 16 or 32 colors). Let’s say one could define color at index 0 for background, at index 1 for main text, index 2 for accent, index 3 for header background etc.
Defined at desktop’s level (no necessity for container level, just like PowerPoint or Word), it would be easy to change a whole setup’s look by simply switching the palette/scheme — as said, just like in PowerPoint. Darkness becomes Light, Lead becomes Gold etc.
Changing palettes should be possible by script also. Think of palettes for Dawn, Day, Dusk, Night — combined with a simple scheduling script = awesomenesss^3.
Palettes could be saved with a template, like Styles. Import/export in JSON-format would be great, too, but not a must.
Pierre Hébert , I know you’re little on time, but let’s hear your opinion. There’s still the open “inheritance” topic and I think Color Schemes would to a great extent be a proper exchange.
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I would reformulate this as “a style that is only affecting a few attributes, not all”.
This way a style could define colors, without altering the label position for instance. But in the same time it wouldn’t prevent a “partial style” to change the label or background colors and also text shadows attributes.
Is my understanding correct ?
Speaking of colors, there aren’t so many colors to configure: text color, shadows, background. I don’t know if this enough to create really different schemes.
Through script I would rather use direct property manipulation, although agreed, it would be nice to be able to trigger a whole style application at once.
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Pierre Hébert Problem with script is: one has to iterate from desktop to all items in containers AND of all those determine exactly the ones that really REALLY should be applied that change to.
Re “I don’t know if this enough”: fire up PowerPoint, create some simple slides and just play around with color schemes. It DOES make a big difference.
Josh Gray I was more thinking like:
Currently there’s i.e. when selected box’s “content” in “+” there is Normal/Selected/Focused labels with the color box at the right. Beside that there is enough space for a second box to open the color picker. Either a color is picked from Color Palette (then this color is used) or the user manually chooses a color via the Color Picker (then this color is used, index reset to -1 or NULL).
Will post a mockup screen in a few seconds.
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Mockup: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106201536507820539535/posts/TCWDgTro2Tp
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