352869 - Color picker display for "no color selected" is in fact grey (conflicts with typical default 'black' that gets used)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Dave Suffling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Opera 9.01
Build Identifier: version 3 alpha 1 (20060915)

The default colour when adding a new tag shows as grey, but when the tag is actually created, the associated colour is black (or perhaps "no colour".)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit->Preferences->Display->Tags->Add
2. Enter a name, but don't select a colour. Note colour shown is grey. 
3. Tag a message with the new tag. Note that the message does not get a grey highlight. 


Expected Results:  
The UI should be clearer that black or no-colour is the default.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is a general issue with the color picker in Preferences; see bug 341074.
I'll leave this open as a Thunderbird bug, but the fix is probably Core.

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Opera 9.01
> Build Identifier: version 3 alpha 1 (20060915)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Edit->Preferences->Display->Tags->Add
> 2. Enter a name, but don't select a colour. Note colour shown is grey. 

I disagree.
I think that the color is "show as" grey because the label where the color is show is transparent and the button has a grey backcolor.
It's seems that behaves right for me and this issue can close as Invalid.

Comment 3

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

I think there are better means to convey "no color selected" than to set the button color to transparent, e.g. a crossed-through button. This symbol could be used in the color picker to select "no color" (which is currently impossible).

Comment 4

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

Aureliano, it does not behave right.

Color picker should show black as 
- it behaves as if you select black
- user does not know that default color is black.

Currently, there are no "colorless" tags, see bug #648515.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM 118 beta.
Aureliano, do you agree

Comment 6

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Confirmed Wfm in TB 118.0b4 (64-bit, Windows 11)