I need some comments on this color palette extension

users
#1

I finally looked into creating the OXT file[s] for my color palettes SOC files.

I would like some users to install it and see if it works with your systems.

For now, I only have Ubuntu 18.04 for the testing OS.

I am using LibreOffice 6.2.0.3 for the testing.  Seems to work well for me.

Here is the direct link.  Once I know it works with Windows, then I will go through the process to have it go onto the Extension Pages.

http://libreoffice-na.us/LibreOffice-and-Resene-Colors.oxt

Please give me any constructive comments.

#2

krackedpress wrote

I finally looked into creating the OXT file[s] for my color palettes SOC
files.

I would like some users to install it and see if it works with your
systems.

...

Hi Tim,

Testing on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit en-US with
Version: 6.1.4.2 (x64)
Build ID: 9d0f32d1f0b509096fd65e0d4bec26ddd1938fd3
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL;
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group threaded

The OXT loads without issue and the extension including the plain text XML
.soc file is dropped into the uno_packages for the current user %APPDATA

Extension installs for current user, no apparent way to adjust to install
for all users.

Removes without issue , and a cache cleanup after restart deletes the entry
in the uno_packages directory.

The .SOC file can be copied, and continues to work, to the default palette
directory in the install directory, e.g. C:\Program
Files\LibreOFfice\share\palette

The full palette loads into Draw's Color Bar once it has been set as in the
color picker run in another module.

The XML looks fine, but I would probably split line #14 to get that block of
LO colors onto their own lines. With ~1400 colors, the extra lines are no
big deal but it improves readability of the color table.

All in all, looks to be a functional extension, if overwhelming.

Stuart

#3

I did not know you could split the listed colors so it makes a space between the end of the LO colors and the start of the Resene colors.  I may just take out the LO colors, and make it Resene colors only.  The list of Resene colors came from this file - http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/resene.pdf

So how do you add the "extra lines"?

I had to use a found color palette OXT files to serve as a template.  The first one I tried failed to work.  The second file was setup a little different and it worked fine,

#4

krackedpress wrote

I did not know you could split the listed colors so it makes a space
between the end of the LO colors and the start of the Resene colors. 
...

So how do you add the "extra lines"?

...

Any 'text' editor, e.g. gvim or notepad++ on Windows, and insert a return.
Be sure to place it the between the closing and opening bracket for the
stanza and not to clobber anything.

#5

Thanks.  Look at the "tonal" palette that came with the current 6.2.0.3 version.  Those empty spaces look weird, and reads weird when you mouse over them.

Due to some issues I could not figure out, I could not create a second palette and add it along side of the Resene one - replace it, but not with it.

So I decided to make a "palette-collection" extension with a few of the SOC file I had on my laptop.  Here is the file's link.

http://libreoffice-na.us/Palette-Collections.oxt

#6

Tim, *

krackedpress wrote

...
Thanks.  Look at the "tonal" palette that came with the current 6.2.0.3
version.  Those empty spaces look weird, and reads weird when you mouse
over them.
...

No that is intentional, result of work on tdf#80196
<https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80196> the empty out
of gamut (sRGB) cells are placeholders for specific graytone saturations and
the swatches are held in correct relationship in our "new" 12 column color
picker.

Details are in the linked BZ issue.

Stuart

#7

Here are some useful infos https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/03/29/libreoffice-extension-export-custom-palette/ (and the link to the extension that exports color palettes (from user palettesI to color extensions.

I finally looked into creating the OXT file[s] for my color palettes SOC files.

...

#8

The only problem I have faced is how to indicate that the new OXT file with a different palette can be installed along side of the other palette OXT file I created.  That is why I am working one a palette collection.  Also try to get the palettes to show up in alpha order on the LO's drop down list of palettes.

My page shows that I "blued out" the palettes that came with LibreOffice 6.2.0.3 - DEB 64-Bit.

I am now up past 60 palettes, of my creation and others from the Open project I mentioned.  I will be looking into sorting out some of those palettes and/or combining them to reduce the total number listed.

One thing I like to do is sort out similar colors, gold and goldenrod, browns and wood related, and others I come up with that might be useful to me and others I know.  That is how I got into making some add on SOC files.  Now I want to make them available to others via an OXT file instead of trying to place the SOC files into the proper folder - now protected.