Comment 0 for bug 171177

Hello,

I would like to suggest to add borders to the
Inkscape's palette swatches.

I took a look at several major (and minor) graphic
softwares, and saw that all of them had borders around
color swatches in the color palettes.

In the attached file, there are screenshots of the
color palettes of the following software:
- Corel Draw 12 (2 variants with wide and default
border size, as this program the possibility to swith
between the border sizes)
- Scibus 1.3.2
- Xara Xtreme (the only program where borders were
replaced by bigger spaces between swatches: swatches
aren't square but colors doesn't mix)
- IconoMaker 1.0 (a freeware icon creator)
- Adobe Illustrator 10
- Adobe Photoshop 7
- ACD Canvas X
- Macromedia Flash MX

I made a small test to understand the need of such a
border. See the second attached file where I compare a
palette with and without bvorders. IMO the one with
borders is a lot more legible and every color is
distinctly seen.

Please post here your thoughs about wether there should
or shouldn't be borders in Inkscape's color swatches.

Thanks! :)

P.S.: A big shout to Joncruz in charge of the palette
implementation for all the feedback he gave me. ;)