hello, I wanted to share a few idea about the advanced color selector

The first thing missing is the current color, a big square of current color. Also, it could be convinient to see the color I am about to pick next to the current color.

The second thing is the palette. I like to keep some of my color somewhere to pick them quickly. I make sometime a little palette on the side of my canvas which is not really convinient so the idea is to make a quick palette where you ca add the current color. The best will be if it can be saved in the kra file. Another possibility is to make a litte canvas in a widget where you can put your color and mix them. (I think there was something like that in painter)

Adding the current colour shouldn't be too hard, though not in the way you describe they should be displayed(the layout-functionality of QT is not my friend).

Quick palette I'll have to think about. There's a lot of architecture that needs to be considered with that.

Hi.
On current color indication: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338128 .

About "quick palette" there was some ideas in mypaint several years ago, originally from Jon Nordby. I ended up with implementing that ideas as a separate script. It's in python+qt4, so it's not so easy to integrate it into krita (which is C++ + qt). Maybe one day it will be possible to write dockers for Krita in Python, or maybe it would be better to implement same or similar ideas in C++ for Krita. See https://github.com/portnov/color-palette/wiki .

I've started work on a Python scripting module, but it needs the multi-document branch to be merged first. As for the dual color button, yes, it's way too small. It's also really old code. I guess we could add a color well widget to the statusbar, that would be the easiest solution. I don't think adding it to the advanced color selector is the best idea, since users might actually use one of the other color selectors instead.

boudewijn wrote:I've started work on a Python scripting module, but it needs the multi-document branch to be merged first. As for the dual color button, yes, it's way too small. It's also really old code. I guess we could add a color well widget to the statusbar, that would be the easiest solution. I don't think adding it to the advanced color selector is the best idea, since users might actually use one of the other color selectors instead.

Well I always hide the statusbar with my small screen so, may I suggest adding it as a widget in the toolbar

By the way, I work a lot in fulscreen (small tablet screen again) and I am always annoyed with color:
first thing is you don't see the color you pick, so it could be cool to have a bubble with the color next to the mouse.
the right clic color wheel is cool but I fint it a little bit to small to be precise,
and it doesnt work the same way as the advanced color selector, one is rotating and the other is not, the previous color are not in the same place; its just details but it prevent to using it in a automated way

Its just my thought, I dont know if its easy or not to change...

It should be easy to change the dual color button, we just need to agree what it should look like

I for one would prefer if the functions of the dual color button were to be split. There's three functions accessible via clicking, each with quite small target area. It's a bit difficult hitting them accurately with the stylus, and really hard with touch input (at 165 PPI).

We could place the color patches side by side but that would kinda make the other stuff look out of place. Feel free to suggest something better.