Re: GtkColorPickerButton

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:51:54AM +0100, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> Its advantage is that it is more compact than a full color selection
> dialog, but it duplicates the palette which is (optionally) part of the
> color selection dialog anyway, and offers an unusual UI, a "gridded"
> menu, which is not found elsewhere in gtk. The button looks like an
> option menu, but it doesn't behave like one (the menu is mapped on
> release and is sticky, whereas for an option menu you would expect it to
> be mapped on press and allow selection on release). And if you don't
> want one of the preset colors, its one more click to the dialog.

It is also a well recognized widget that is used in most win32
applications and is available in most major toolkits.  I would
prefer it it to feel like an option menu.  However, that is just an
implementation detail.  The first question is whether or not the
colour selector should be a trivial map to a dialog or contain a
pallete.

/me votes for the palette