Only make "readable" colors available

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Binary package hint: gobby

When many users have already entered a session, often times the number of color combinations is reduced and in order to at least join a session users end up choosing unreadabe color, such as back on dark blue background.

Although it may debatable what " readable " color combinations are, it would be prefereable to give this some thought and try to offer more sensible choices, as dark color will make content reading useless for the collaborators.

I lack the knowledge to propose a sensible logic to choose such colors, but the end result should be a readable collaboration session.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 20 11:45:08 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gobby 0.4.9-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gobby
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

There was a patch for GTK (I think) posted on planet gnome a couple of years back. I have been unable to track it down with a couple of minutes of searching, but this sounds something that could usefully be used here.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

I' ve attached an example resulting of the current logic.

Source: http://identi.ca/notice/15205045

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Wishlisted as this is a request

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

While it's a request, it also makes the application quite unusable in large environments (like UDS), so I have changed this to medium and confirmed it.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/ticket/504

[Armin Burgmeier (arbu)]

FWIW this is fixed in the experimental Gobby 0.4.9x series. It allows different people to have the same color, but, more importantly, the user only chooses a hue value for the color. This value is then made readable by adjusting saturation and value (in a HSV color model) locally at each site, taking into account the background color of the user's theme.

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

Here are some screenshots from me using Gobby during UDS. I found myself having to highlight text because I could not read it.

[Armin Burgmeier (arbu)]

What about simply removing the check for duplicate colors?