[gedit-list] Direct color settings removed from gedit?

[Vesa Paatero <vpaatero lavabit com>]

Hello,

I just recently upgraded my Ubuntu  distribution to a newer version and 
noticed that gedit of the newer version (gedit 2.20.3) doesn't have 
something that I the older one (unknown version) did:  Color selectors 
for setting text color in Settings. The help page for Font & Colors 
Preferences still says (in v2.20.3):

    "Click on the Normal text color color button to display the color 
selector dialog. Select a color to use to display normal text in the 
gedit text window.
                
   "Click on the Background color color button to display the color 
selector dialog. Select a background color for the gedit text window."

But, alas, those buttons are not available anymore.  It seems that the 
color model system has replaced the direct settings for text and 
background color -- and that's not so good because it pushes the free 
color selection beyond the reach of  many ordinary (non-developer) 
users. And the four color models available by default show only black 
and white for normal text (i.e. not in a programming language mode).

Well, I managed to change text color by copying, modifying, and 
installing/adding an existing color model. But I find that for simple 
settings like text color, the color model system makes a simple thing 
difficult.
   Would it be too much trouble to have both the color model system and 
the direct color selectors so that the selectors would override the 
respective model colors when a color selector is applied?
Thank you.

Best Regards,
Vesa