[Bf-taskforce25] colour picker feedback

[William Reynish]

Hi Matt,

This sounds perfect.

Actually I thought this was exactly the way the new picker was  
supposed to work.

The 'drag' usage would mean picking a color can become almost like a  
gesture where you swipe in a direction with a single click-drag-release.

But when you do click (and not drag), then yes, you do want to be able  
to insert values directly. As it happens, your mockup for that looks  
very neat. We could even have two color picker styles in that design,  
to allow users to use the HSV-oriented color square from 2.4x.

Cheers,

-William



On 15 Jun, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Matt Ebb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We've had a few chats in IRC about the new colour picker, I thought
> I'd post an amended proposal here.
>
> The new picker is very cool, but it has some drawbacks.
>
> Good stuff:
> * It's pretty
> * It's nice and compact
> * It's fast to use for situations that don't need high precision, like
> the persistent colour picker for painting tools
>
> Bad stuff:
> * We definitely need access to the R/G/B values and sampler directly.
> Hiding this behind a modifier key goes against the transparency that
> we're trying to achieve with 2.5
> * It gets very annoying that the colour picker disappears after the
> first click (or drag). This means that you have to pull up the colour
> picker twice to set the colour properly (hue/sat/value). Hidden
> modifier keys don't count here.
>
> http://mke3.net/blender/devel/2.5/colour_picker.jpg
>
> So here's a proposal that hopefully combines the best of all worlds.
> The idea is that you can get the quick-tweak-picker with its hidden
> functionality as a shortcut, by dragging on the picker. This is
> available for people who know about it, but it's not the primary means
> of choosing a colour.
>
> But by default, the way that most people will use the colour picker
> (with a click), it shows the relevant sliders and sampler.
>
> cheers,
>
> Matt
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