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| − | Swap a "fixed number" of colours used in each session, via a toggle shortcut key.
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| − | ==Current possibilities==
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| − | * Swap between FG/BG Colour via keyboard shortcut → screenshot Configure Keyboard Shortcuts.
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| − | [[Image:swap-colors-fg-bg.png]]<br>
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| − | <p style="font-size:.85em">Configuring the current keyboard shortcut to swap the FG/BG colours.</p>
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| − | * Scrolling between the swatches of the current palette via Keyboard Shortucuts.
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| − | The 'context-foreground-palette-...' and 'context-background-palette-...' to scroll the all swatches of a palette.<br>
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| − | But to use these shortcuts is necessary to have the Palette Swatches and the Palette Editor opened or dockable.<br>
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| − | For more details see the report on bugzilla about these shortcuts → [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765817 Context actions on Palette dialogs.]<br>
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| − | '''Comments [Massimo Valentini]'''<br>
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| − | <div style="width:50em; padding-left:1em">''I experimented a bit with these actions and I have found that they only work if the 'Palette Editor' is docked or at least open. So one has to open Windows->Dockable Dialogs->Palettes and double click on a palette, this way the 'Palette Editor' is opened and after that these shortcuts start working. They keep working even if the dockable is not the active tab.''</div>
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| − | [[Image:change-foreground-color-dialog-shortcuts.jpg]]<br>
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| − | <p style="font-size:.85em">Configuring the current keyboard shortcut scrolling the swatches in a palette (thanks to Massimo Valentini).</p>
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| − | * Swatches* of colours used and or stored by the user → image of GIMP picker and current Palette dialog on GIMP 2.9.
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| − | [[Image:gimp-picker-history-colours.png]]<br>
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| − | [[Image:change-foreground-color-dialog.jpg]]<br>
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| − | <p style="font-size:.85em">History Colours in the FG/BG Colour and Change Foreground Colour Dialogs.</p>
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| − | (*) The swatches (two rows) could be understood as a palette built, on-the-fly, during the work sessions by the user in three ways:<br>
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| − | 1) via button '>' to add current colour on FG to palette or;<br>
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| − | 2) via drag and drop colour in each swatch or;<br>
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| − | 3) via picker colour, but is added only after the colour is used on canvas. Each new colour is placed, always, in the first slot (left-side of first row), and the displacement of colours happening versus right-side direction to each new colour that is added.<br>
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| − | ==Improvement Reasons==
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| − | Enhancing the General Usability → [1] to have a fast way to access the history colours used in each work sessions; [2] to avoid excessive use of steps, ''via mouse mainly'', between paint tools tasks (repetitive stress), see [http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Topics_to_Digital_Painting_with_GIMP#Scenario_.7C_Float_full_or_dockable_.7C_Single_Window test below]; [3] Swapping color without necessity to use the traditional dialogs... the session task is more focused and simple.
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| − | ===Comments===
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| − | ===Scenario | Float full or Dockable | Single Window===
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| − | Basically is the same thing, because we need move cursor around the window/docks and make clicks to select colours in the different dialogs.
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| − | '''Example: Fill a Mondrian Grid'''<br />
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| − | [[Image:swap-colors-flow-1.jpg]]<br>
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| − | <p style="font-size:.85em">Example to find the amount of the steps to pick colours in the current release.</p>
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| − | '''a)''' Rectangle Tool Selection → select a rectangle;<br>
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| − | '''b)''' Bucket fill tool;<br>
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| − | '''c)''' Choose colour;<br>
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| − | '''c1)''' Click on FG Colour on Toolbox → Open Change Foreground Colour → Move cursor on Dialog → Choice steps (minimal 1 step, 2 steps if need to close dialog);<br>
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| − | '''or c2)''' Move cursor until FG/BG Colour Dialog → Choice steps (2 steps);<br>
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| − | '''d)''' Fill the selected rectangle.
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| − | To choose colours is necessary minimal 2 steps and maximum 3 steps (cursor movements and clicks).
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| − | The sample has 6*6=36 rectangles, only to select colours for all rectangles, we must crossing or move the cursor and do clicks at amount of a minimal 72 and a maximum of 108 times.
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| − | ==Proposal Swap History Colours==
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| − | | A | B | C | D | E | F |
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| − | | | +--Next Colour (C) --------> (3) Hit key again → is selected this swatch.
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| − | | +----> Next Colour (B) --------> (2) Raise finger from key → is selected this swatch, previous of the last colour used.
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| − | +--------> Last colour used (A) ---> (1) Hit key Shortcut Open Popup with swatches.
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| − | * History colour pop-up, for instance, with the last 6 colours stored in history of the FG/BG Colours dialogue. This pop-up is enabled when hit the key shortcut action.
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| − | * Each time that raise finger from key and hit again, the selection colour goes to next colour, for instance, from A to B, and successively until F and in a closed cycle. The principle is the same of the short-cut to swap colours between FG/BG, but in this case we have 6 colours.
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| − | * Each time that the key short-cut is held down, the colour remains stopped in the slot, for example A.
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| − | * The cycle is stopped naturally after a lapse time between hit key and raise finger of key.
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| − | * Have on GIMP preferences the possibility to choose the amount of colours to use in this pop-up, for example, minimal 6 and maximum 12 colours.
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| − | ''Note: is possible to think the sequence from F going to A, where F is the last colour used by user, E the previous and successively.''
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| − | ==References==
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| − | Short video showing general [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSsWN0xKlLQ behaviour].
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