Bug 169304 - Proposal to add a tooltip for Options > Charts > Default Colors: Chart Colors list entries
Summary: Proposal to add a tooltip for Options > Charts > Default Colors: Chart Colors...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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6.3 all versions
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Chart
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Reported: 2025-11-06 21:15 UTC by Jim Raykowski
Modified: 2026-01-12 06:52 UTC (History)
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Description Jim Raykowski 2025-11-06 21:15:24 UTC 
Originally I included what is proposed in this patch:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/193437/1

Michael's comment there advises to make a separate commit for this. I agree.

Would a tooltip in the form of "Data Series N (hex color)" be helpful?
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-11-07 10:04:08 UTC 
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #0)
> Would a tooltip in the form of "Data Series N (hex color)" be helpful?

A tooltip on the left list, labeled Chart Colors? Like for "Data Series 1" the tooltip "Data Series 1 (#004586)". I see no real need for this and presume not too many users can mentally convert the RGB value into a color impression :-). => NAB

Besides, the palette manager applies to all color pickers and looking at Tools > Options > Chart changes it from Standard to Chart Palette (if the first entry is #004586). Has been like this before but only if the user manually picked a different palette. Perhaps you store the "global" palette and reset it once the dialog is closed.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2026-01-12 06:52:07 UTC 
No further comment, removing needsUXEval.

And deciding NAB (neither an enhancement for some use case)