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interactive 'mix colors' option in bottom pane #44

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
While often I want to make blends in the palette, it's very common that I end 
up going back and forth tuning the blend endpoints. For this, the 'mix colors' 
dialog is troublesome, because I have to repeatedly invoke it every time I 
change the endpoint colors.

If instead I could interact with the endpoints to directly tune them, and 
finally commit the result to the palette, that would be a lot more useful IMO, 
and would also make paint-program users,
of which I am one, happy (providing a 'blender' that can easily be dropped to 
or picked from.) 

tl;dr version : An interactive version of 'mix colors' as a choice in the 
bottom pane would be very useful, IMO.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by 00a...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 8:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Would a limit of only 2 blended colors ("mix colors" dialog allows any number 
of colors to be mixed with each other) be ok? You can check an initial version 
in revision 91753c886d18

Original comment by thezbyg on 10 Jul 2011 at 8:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Definitely. I am strongly against arbitrary numbers of endpoints, because it 
makes things unnecessarily complex for both users and developers. 

This initial revision is very useful as it is :). I also have some comments on 
improving it:

Ideally, I envisage having exactly 3 endpoints (let's call them A B C), and two 
adjustments 
(one for the number of steps A->B, the other for the number of steps B->C), 
with a right-click menu command to reset the middle color to a 50% A/C mix. 
This would allow you to somewhat see the context of the gradient, to help 
adjusting it to work well with the following blend; without unnecessarily 
complicating the UI.

Currently, the color areas are huge, because of the minimum width of the left 
pane.
I'm sure you are already considering what they should end up looking like. I 
suggest a grid (the gradient progressing left -> right, with multiple rows if 
necessary)

Original comment by 00a...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2011 at 2:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Displaying colors as a grid will require a custom widget, so it will take some 
time to develop. Other changes are easier, so I implemented most of them in new 
revision b8e92f67e266. Currently there is no right-click menus, other than 
that, everything should work.

Original comment by thezbyg on 11 Jul 2011 at 9:04