Summary: | FORMATTING UI [Accessibility] Eyedropper to select previously used background color | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Trent Tompkins <trenttompkins> |
Component: | Calc | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | libreoffice-ux-advise, stephane.guillou, vsfoote |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | Inherited From OOo | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: |
Description
Trent Tompkins
2024-04-23 15:34:29 UTC
Without relation to the eyedropper request, there is a way to copy the background color of a cell from the "format cell" dialog, where you can see the RGB/HEX values. There is also a way to copy the font color from the "font color > custom color" dialog. Of course there is the possibility of a simple copy format (clone) a cell, which includes those properties. Sure, an eyedropper feature might be simpler for users. I am just pointing out that there are alternatives available (as oppose to being some random try-and-error iteration attempts). In effect we already have this, just not in the "eyedropper" motif--and see also bug 93813 to rework the SD color replacment. That is, the 'Background Color' TB button opens the common color picker displaying the active palette (usually 'Standard'). And across the bottom is a swatch bar with the 12 most 'Recent' colors across the UI (so not just current Calc session). What is not obvious, is that for any cell on the sheet selected, launching the 'Background Color' picker's button link to the 'Custom color...' dialog will show the bg color of the cell. Likewise for the 'Font Color' picker's link to 'Custom color...' where dialog will show the fg color for font in the cell. Between the two, it is trivial to match colors for those occasions when the 12 swatch recent bar is insufficient, a textual copy/paste of the RGB. Not quite dropper style, and could be enhanced to pass RGBA values back to the Recent swatch bar for bg fill or fg text. With the existing two workarounds (Recent palette, and the copy-paste of colour code), I see this as a clear duplicate of bug 93813. See also bug 130967, which is already marked as duplicate It might be added to the widgets as part of a fix, and if not, it would be a follow-up enhancement request. Let's consolidate. Thank you! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 93813 *** |