Bug 125694 - Save most current used colors
Summary: Save most current used colors
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2019-06-05 00:17 UTC by Rich Hulse
Modified: 2019-06-05 03:53 UTC (History)
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Description Rich Hulse 2019-06-05 00:17:38 UTC
Description:
The 4-6 last used colors on the background color picker should be saved for reuse across documents. I use the same color-coding in all my documents and am constantly having to pick out my colors from the palette instead of from a recent pick list. Currently colors are not saved across documents or after closing the app.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.select and use a background color
2.close and open new document (especially if after a few hours)
3.Try to select color from frequent used pick list (below palette)

Actual Results:
Usually no recent colors are shown to select from

Expected Results:
expect to see last half dozen used colors


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2019-06-05 03:53:50 UTC
No, recent colors are intentionally transient stanzas in user profile.

Rather than a work flow depending on that listing we provide user ability to build a "custom" palette in their profile within the GUI, which can be reused in multiple documents.

Open the Area dialog's -> Color tab, or the Character dialog's Highlighting -> Color tabb; the recent colors are there to pick and add to the built-in custom palette. The RGB HEX color values of the picker are written as decimal values with names into the user profile (registrymodifications.xcu) where they can be edited outside of a LO session.  

The Document colors palette has a few functional issues--but is intended to provide the same reusable palette colors recorded to profile, and can be saved to document template (as Hex values--without color name) for portability.

And in addition to the provided Custom palette in user profile, it is trivial to build a palette of color tupples in a text editor outside of the GUI, and add to your LO installation share/palette directory with a name of your choice.  Have a look at a .soc file in that directory for file format. The color names and Hex values of the .soc will be used in the GUI.