90667 - rfe: Mac users should have access to native color picker

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 875756

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Kathleen :Brade]

The editor should allow Macintosh users to access the OS color picker from an 
"Other" option.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Brade was waiting for me to expand on that ...

Basically, on Mac OS wherever we currently call <colorpicker>, we should be
using the OS-provided colorpicker. Examples of such places:
*   the Colors category of prefs
*   the Composer category of prefs
*   formatting dialogs in Editor (Composer and message composition).

At the current rate of Mozilla development, implementing a colorpicker in XUL
which is as nice or as useful as the Mac one will take about ten years. Using
the native one would take a fraction of the effort, and would make Mozilla more
consistent with the rest of the OS.

This bug might belong in XP Toolkit: Widgets.

Comment 2

[rubydoo123]

assign to brade

Comment 3

[Andrew Thompson]

I believe this colour picker can either be opened in its own window or embeded
in a dialog. I wonder if we still have the ability to embed native controls in
XUL? Mind you, I think most moz colour pickers are in their own dialogs, no?

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->xptoolkit

Comment 5

[John Morrison]

May God have mercy on us all. The 212 bug spam-o-rama is Now!

Comment 6

[Hex]

This issue is covered in a non-platform-specific manner by bug #242840.

Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee is inactive on Bugzilla, so the assignee is being reset.

Comment 8

[Kagami Rosylight 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

This has been resolved in bug 875756.