Re: [Gimp-gui] Suggestion to add an option for colour picker (which picks from image) in colour dialog box.

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

On 2018-02-27 15:42, Elle Stone wrote:
> On 02/27/2018 09:21 AM, Jehan wrote:
>
> > While I understand what you are asking for, I'm wondering why it is 
> > really necessary. The 2 options already exist: picking using the color 
> > picker tool or using the color dock.
>
> > I also understand that you may not want to care about the difference.  
> > From a simple point of view, they both pick colors, what is the 
> > difference? Who even cares about this difference? I get this.
> > Yet the difference exists, we didn't invent it and I'm not sure if 
> > trying to blur this difference is not an actual disservice to people.
>
> Hi,
>
> Hmm, I didn't interpret the request as "why care about the difference"
> (the difference is very real and very important). I interpreted the
> request as "Put access to the color picker inside the "Choose
> Foreground/Background" dialog, along with keeping the "pick screen
> color" eye-dropper".
>
> Having the color picker tool inside the "Choose FG/BG" dialog seems
> like it might be pretty handy, though given that the color picker is
> readily available in the toolbox, it's not a big deal.
>
> Having the color picker tool also be in the "Choose FG/BG" dialog,
> along with the screen color picker, might make it more obvious that
> the two tools indeed have different purposes and do in fact pick
> different colors.
>
> On the other hand, the "Choose FG/BG" dialog would be more
> complicated. And users might forget which color picking tool they just
> used, or accidentally use the screen color picker when really they
> wanted the "pick color from GIMP image" color picker or vice versa.

Yes I interpreted the request the same as you, and this last sentence is 
what I meant by "blurring" the difference. Basically allowing the 2 
features from the same place may make it confusing to most people.

Right now, it is simple: you either use the tool and you get canvas 
colors; or you get the more generic color picker from the dock and you 
can pick color from anywhere on screen. Well most people won't know the 
difference, but the people who do (graphics professional or amateur who 
go further in digital graphics subtleties) will directly get the 
difference between these 2 different features.
Trying to get them all at the same place, with slightly different icons 
or text titles or whatever, or even just a single icon but a checkbox to 
switch between the 2 features (or whatever else GUI option one might 
think of) feel to me to me like it makes the separation less clear.
Which is also what you are saying in your last sentence.

As you say, both features are reachable quite easily already. I don't 
see a huge gain in trying to have them all at the same place.

Jehan

> Best,
> Elle
>
>
>
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