Bug 161040 - application colors scheme : offer a drop-down list in toolbars
Summary: application colors scheme : offer a drop-down list in toolbars
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Depends on: 125217
Blocks: Notebookbar Toolbars Options-Dialog-Colours
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Reported: 2024-05-11 15:04 UTC by Jérôme
Modified: 2024-07-01 11:26 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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MS 365 screenshot (41.20 KB, image/png)
2024-05-28 02:34 UTC, Stéphane Guillou (stragu)
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Description Jérôme 2024-05-11 15:04:32 UTC
I'm trying to edit documents with a dark colors scheme. However, many documents aren't readable with this colors scheme and I need to switch back to an other colors scheme.

I would like to quickly switch between the application colors schemes, depending a the document that I'm working on. Therefore a drop-down list into the toolbar (or notebook bar) would be useful.

I'm already using this feature with Firefox and its Dark Reader extension. I'm deactivating the feature only for the web sites that aren't readable with the color transformation that Dark Reader does.
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-27 02:25:27 UTC
Are you referring to the colour schemes in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Application Colors?
Comment 2 Jérôme 2024-05-27 16:49:15 UTC
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #1)
> Are you referring to the colour schemes in Tools > Options > LibreOffice >
> Application Colors?

Yes it is.
Comment 3 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-28 02:34:58 UTC
Created attachment 194388 [details]
MS 365 screenshot

What MS 365 offers in the View tab: an easy switch between dark and light mode (related to bug 160349) and another to switch the document background.
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2024-05-28 04:19:17 UTC
This has been done recently and will be available in the upcoming release 24.8. When using the classic toolbar UI you need to customize the command where you like it, ie. menu or toolbar.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 160349 ***
Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-28 04:57:51 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> This has been done recently and will be available in the upcoming release
> 24.8. When using the classic toolbar UI you need to customize the command
> where you like it, ie. menu or toolbar.
I understand Jérôme is asking for an Application Colors scheme switch / dropdown that would be independent of the UI dark/light mode.
Comment 6 Justin L 2024-05-28 11:40:31 UTC
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #5)
> (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> I understand Jérôme is asking for an Application Colors scheme switch /
> dropdown that would be independent of the UI dark/light mode.
Right. The basic toggle could be supplemented with a dropdown that lets you choose from the defined Application Color schemes. It should be relatively easy to do.
Comment 7 Heiko Tietze 2024-05-29 08:43:43 UTC
Meaning you assume users to create many color schemes. Doubt that.

We should wait until the new customization/personalization is implemented [1]. Idea is to make both app and system colors extenionizable, essentially bug 125217.

And still, I see no convincing use case to frequently switch between color schemes, neither here not on bug 161041.

[1] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05/07/projects-selected-for-libreoffice-in-the-google-summer-of-code-2024/
Comment 8 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-29 11:02:31 UTC
Jérome, I think that it would be useful to share two sample documents that illustrate your use case (at least for the Dark and Light color schemes).
How many color schemes do you frequently switch between?
Comment 9 Rafael Lima 2024-05-29 12:35:19 UTC
(In reply to Justin L from comment #6)
> Right. The basic toggle could be supplemented with a dropdown that lets you
> choose from the defined Application Color schemes. It should be relatively
> easy to do.

+1

I believe the new toggle could be a drop-down with the following options:

- System colors
- Dark
- Light
---------
- Color scheme 1
- Color scheme 2
...
- Color scheme n