Sanitize default palettes

Bug #602698 reported by Andy Fitzsimon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Invalid
Medium
Jon A. Cruz

Bug Description

Since Jon implemented the feature years back, I've done many casual surveys of which palettes designers are using and which ones designers want. My suggestion is that we sanitize our current collection of palettes to make inkscape easier for common tasks as well as remove the bloat.

Here's what i recommend:
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Kill: gray, blues, gold, green, reds, royal. hilte, topographic, khaki, and inkscape-default (its a bad default)

Keep, tango, echo, ubuntu, XP, latex, websafe22, webhex

Add: Android palette (attached) and fedora's echo palette
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I also suggest we default to either tango, android, or ubuntu. it doesnt matter which one. only that we simplyfy the range of colours being displayed by default so that artists can quickly pickup a few primary hues.

my reasons for listing the palettes i did in the kill pile are simply that they offer far too many variations of the same hues. its a confusingly big list and in a typical workflow, the fill and stroke dialog is the best and easiest place to go if you want to vary parameters on a selected hue. of course a few variations are fine

Tags: color ui
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Andy Fitzsimon (andyfitz) wrote :
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Andy Fitzsimon (andyfitz) wrote :

attached the fedora / echo palette

su_v (suv-lp)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
tags: added: color ui
removed: colors colours defaults interface palette swatches
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Reverting previous change of bug importance ( - sorry, made a mistake).

Changed in inkscape:
importance: Wishlist → Medium
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Andy Fitzsimon (andyfitz) wrote :

removed echo palette, sorry Fedora. I forgot it was already included :)

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Details discussed in 'inkscape-devel' mailing list:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/34350>

jazzynico (jazzynico)
Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Triaged
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John Smith (john-smithi) wrote :

Added Android palette (r11728).

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John Smith (john-smithi) wrote :

Related and requested in mailing list thread above.
Sorting of palettes - bug #1060563.

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Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger) wrote :

Hi, someone has opened a similar issue on Gitlab (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/2405). I've summarized the discussion in this thread as well as the two mailing list threads. Closing as part of Gitlab's bug migration.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger

Changed in inkscape:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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