Closed
Bug 78375
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
New colopicker behavior is bad for Composer
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: cmanske, Assigned: hewitt)
References
Details
Hewitt rewrote the XUL <colorpicker> widget so it is a button that when clicked
on opens a popup with the array of color swatches. (Bug 56150).
It supports key-navigation, which is a good thing. That behavior used to require
having the attribute type="button" on the colorpicker, but recent changes to
both Classic and Modern themes have made this the default.
In Composer, we extend the functionality of the colorpicker and now the array
of swatches does not show on the top area of our popup (which is a small
dialog), as it used to. This is not acceptable, as users are required to do
three clicks just to pick a color. This widget needs to be redesigned so we
can include just the array of color swatches as we did before, but with
keyboard navigation.
Comment 1•24 years ago
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#include std_colorpicker_bug_comment.mpt
I think that wherever GUI needs to be provided for selecting a color -- in the
Preferences, in Composer's toolbar, or wherever -- the GUI should be the same.
This would be a bog-standard popup menu, with the eight most recently-used
colors for that situation (defaulting to eight commonly-used colors), a
separator, and an `Other ...' item. The `Other ...' item would bring up the
native colorpicker for that platform (GTK, Mac OS, Qt, Win32), or the XP
colorpicker if it's considered to be at least twice as good usability-wise as
the native one for a particular platform.
With regard to this bug, the use of a popup menu would mean that in most cases
users would just need to perform a single drag -- rather than three clicks --
to select a color.
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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My orginal claim seems not to be true! I.e., you have to put type="button" to
replace full color array with the new color button.
Joe promised to help with bug 64160: make the new color array focusable in
Composer's use of <colorpicker>
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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