List of Improvements and ideas for Color Palette

[shijan]

I remember some nice ideas and requests for Color Palette here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6346, so i want to bump some old requests and add some new ideas for discussion as well:

• Allow unlimited amount of Color Palettes in menu
• Allow to move color patches without copy and overwrite other patches (use drag + some key modifier for this).
• Menu command to delete palette from menu list.
• Allow to read Color Palettes directly from /Library/Preferences/PhotoLine/Palettes folder. Palettes disappears from menu if they where deleted from that folder.
  (Formally currently it almost works. If i create special folder, put there copies of palette files and import from that folder, they became visible in the list. If i delete palette files from that folder, they are no more visible in the list. The main problem is that PhotoLine can't automatically read form folder and so i need to import every new palette manually one by one.)
• Show Lab, HSV and other color model names in Toolbox color area.
  (Probably this is not a perfect idea, because text is large and can't fit well to any size.
• Show RGB, HIS, Lab modes for Gradients.
  
• Automatically show color model name in color description.
  
• Triangle corner badges for Gray, CMYK and Lab are really nice and informative hint, but currently there is no badge for HSV mode.
• In large amounts of patches triangle badges makes a lot of visual noise and it is very hard to read colors. I would like to see user option to show/hide those triangle corner badges. Sometimes i just want to see colors without any distraction.
  

[Herbert123]

Honestly, I would just like to have all of these list windows to offer the option to create groups/folders and sub-groups/folders.

Same for brushes. Same for Patterns and Textures. Also for Gradients. And Document Colours. And Guides. And pretty much all the other "List" panels/windows.

Just add folders/grouping. Similar to the Actions list panel.

Pretty please? It would make life SO much easier managing all the presets.

[shijan]

Yes, folders could really help a lot with large collections. But folders also require more UI space.
For smaller collections i guess it could be useful to have an option to add separators between merged collections.

[shijan]

• One more Request/Idea: "Convert with Color Profile" for Color Swatches.

Described here: viewtopic.php?p=49643#p49643

[shijan]

So here is in summary my redesign idea for discussion:
- add upper left triangle corner badge for HSV mode
- Option to show/hide corner triangle badges (as well as Gray, CMYK rectangle badges in beta version).
- Add color mode name to colors description in list view and tooltips (so user could see color mode when triangle badges are hidden)