If I open an Impress presentation I had edited long ago, and open a color choice widget/dialog which has "Recently Used Colors" - I seem to see colors I used recently in my LO session(s), in other documents - not the documents I recently used in the editing history of the current document, i.e. my last color choices editing the presentation I've opened. I would like to have _those_ recent colors, along with, or separately with, or even instead of, the colors I recently used in my current LO session.
This would be additional information that would need to be recorded to profile "per document". Recent colors are always relative to current LO session, and are recorded to user profile. Seems better to complete the reread/refresh/restoration of the 'Document colors' pallet handling, so those fully reflect color use of the reopened document. Then colors actually "picked" out of that pallet would become current recents added to the session's swatch bar (and recorded to profile at that point). See also bug 116782 and bug 106187, or your dupe to 116782 bug 164011
Should note that unfortunately there has been no improvement in Document colors pallet handling with recent work on bug 166895
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > This would be additional information that would need to be recorded to > profile "per document". Yes, indeed it would. > Recent colors are always relative to current LO session, and are recorded to > user profile. I did acknowledge I'm talking about a different kind of recency. TBH, though, I don't see why colors used in other - typically unrelated - documents should be on the "recent" list of the document you're working on. > Seems better to complete the reread/refresh/restoration of the 'Document > colors' pallet handling, so those fully reflect color use of the reopened > document. Then colors actually "picked" out of that pallet would become > current recents added to the session's swatch bar (and recorded to profile > at that point). If we had "document colors" or a "document palette" then, indeed, the motivation for this would decrease; but - it wouldn't go away, because in a document you often use colors which aren't the exact ones from the palette, and those should show up for the user to choose from. Unless I'm misinterpreting what document colors is supposed to mean? To map out the whole space, though: * Colors recently used in the LO session (or module) * Colors from the Document "theme" / palette * Colors considered to be "Document colors" (perhaps the same as the previous category?) * Colors recently used in the history of editing the current document (which may different that than "document colors" or "document theme" I'm interested in the fourth kind. Are those supposed to count as "document colors"?
Morever - "document colors" are not accessible when you use a drop-down mini-widget for color selection. So, even if colors recently-used-in-editing were considered "document colors" - I want to see those when picking colors.
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #4) > Morever - "document colors" are not accessible when you use a drop-down > mini-widget for color selection. So, even if colors recently-used-in-editing > were considered "document colors" - I want to see those when picking colors. They are (or should be fully but aren't) when you select the "Document colors" entry from the list box.
We have a Document Colors palette and we have Recent Colors. Both serve different use cases and have been introduced by design. I see no question for UX (beyond "I don't like it").