Bug 84579

Created attachment 107290 [details]
Color picker showing swatch "Red" selected LOv4322

Created attachment 107291 [details]
Color picker showing swatch "Red" selected LOv4400 2014-09-29 x86_64 deb

In attachment 107290 [details] you see the word 'Red' at the bottom of the UI, in attachment 107291 [details] there is no text label mentioning the name of the color. When a user selects a custom color, there wont be a text label for it, so its important to show either the RGB or hex value of the currently selected color.

I agree. The new "Color Picker" button at the bottom of the v4.4.0.0 screenshot need not run full width. It need only be a small square button at bottom right, with the name and hex equivalent of the selected swatch displayed to the left. Alternatively, create a new row for this information. Status set to NEW. Component set to UI. Severity set to enhancement.

(In reply to Owen Genat from comment #4)
> I agree. The new "Color Picker" button at the bottom of the v4.4.0.0
> screenshot need not run full width. It need only be a small square button at
> bottom right, with the name and hex equivalent of the selected swatch
> displayed to the left. Alternatively, create a new row for this information.
> Status set to NEW. Component set to UI. Severity set to enhancement.

Small clarification. As per the driving design:

https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/attachments/download/138/color-picker.png

... it seems the currently selected colour should appear as a separate (and labelled) swatch at the head of the dialog.

Created attachment 108609 [details]
mockup

(In reply to Owen Genat from comment #5)
> Small clarification. As per the driving design:
> 
> https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/attachments/download/138/color-picker.
> png
> 
> ... it seems the currently selected colour should appear as a separate (and
> labelled) swatch at the head of the dialog.

I think you are mistaken, that part simply names the drop down.

I think the current selected color label should appear below the color palette list and the recent list.

(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #6)
> Created attachment 108609 [details]
> mockup

What about showing that in a tooltip when hovering over a color?

(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #7)
> What about showing that in a tooltip when hovering over a color?

There are tooltips already when you hover over a color, except in the recent list.

(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #8)
> There are tooltips already when you hover over a color, except in the recent
> list.

Of course they are :-P I meant, what about showing the hexadecimal value on them. Sorry for not being clear earlier.

(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #9)
> Of course they are :-P I meant, what about showing the hexadecimal value on
> them. Sorry for not being clear earlier.

Yes i think having the hex value in the tooltip as well as in the label, even when we do provide a name for the color, is a great think. Putting it also in the label came to mind after your previous comment and it would be quite useful now that we have various palettes to choose from. In some of the palettes we show the binary or hex or both, so it would be good to streamline that we always show the binary and hex values in a particular format.

Suggested Format: Name (#hex) [r.g.b]

Came across an image ( http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/ux/middleware/richclient/guidelines5/images/inputColor/color_elems.png ) which had the suggested format: 'Name (hex / r,g,b)'