Bug 58334 - Make it easier to choose custom colours
Summary: Make it easier to choose custom colours
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 42159
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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3.6.4.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsDevEval
: 74905 75830 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-12-15 14:00 UTC by freyraphael
Modified: 2015-12-16 22:31 UTC (History)
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Description freyraphael 2012-12-15 14:00:11 UTC 
Libreoffice lets you change (font, background, ...) colour directly using the buttons in the toolbar or via the context menu. However, you can only choose one of the predefined colours. Choosing a custom colour in Libre Office is far too complicated: The desired colour has to be added to the colour table in the settings menu before it can be used.

Please improve/simplify colour handling in Libre Office and let users choose custom colours directly from the toolbar buttons.
Comment 1 Roman Eisele 2012-12-20 09:07:44 UTC 
Thank you for your report!

IMHO this is a valid enhancement request, therefore set Status to NEW.
Comment 2 Robert Roth 2013-02-06 08:22:05 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 42159 ***
Comment 3 a3380349 2013-10-29 13:06:29 UTC 
IMHO this is NOT a duplicate bug 42159. The problem described here is that, as an example, it's not possible to directly assign any background color to a cell. It's only possible to choose a color from the palette which has to be defined beforhand (in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Colors). This is rather annoying. Microsoft Office and Apple iWork let you directly choose from any color you want. You don't have to define them first.
Comment 4 Tin Man 2014-01-28 12:37:12 UTC 
Document colors (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67995) should be added first, so that custom colors can be easily reused within the document.
Comment 5 Joel Madero 2014-03-08 22:36:38 UTC 
*** Bug 75830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Joel Madero 2014-03-08 22:37:05 UTC 
bug 75830 has a few suggestions in the comments as to the best way to improve colors
Comment 7 Stefan Knorr (astron) 2014-03-13 15:35:45 UTC 
*** Bug 72055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Stefan Knorr (astron) 2014-03-13 15:35:54 UTC 
*** Bug 74905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Stefan Knorr (astron) 2014-03-13 15:40:38 UTC 
Duplicate Bug 74905 is mostly about being able to re-use old colours (which was in scope for our colour picker design).
Comment 10 a3380349 2014-04-21 13:12:04 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 42159 ***
Comment 11 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-16 22:31:19 UTC 
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (ProposedEasyHack -> needsDevEval)
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