default colors for print [was: Re: [PULL REQUEST] GSoC Printing: part 5]

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 06:47:35PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> > That's not exactly intuitive. But once we find a color palette that's
> > reasonably pleasing to the eye maybe this is not too bad...
> >
> > With the deepest respect to your ability as a developer, Gehad, neither of
> > these two appears to be the winner, yet. We can do better than this.
> >
> > Which of course means that I need to design a color palette. Then Linus
> > will come in and will create the ONE TRUE color palette and curse anyone
> > who disagrees, after which some unknown student will create the perfect
> > template that awes us all.
> >
> > OK, maybe I'm over-planning this one...
> >
> > :-)
> 
> i try to say away from color, music, food and similar debates as
> everyone seems to have a preference. :-)
> as a rule of thumb, the people with the highest rank and privilege
> should (e.g. the client) should make the picks.
> 
> in the case of Subsurface, that would be you and Linus.

Ha! Rank! Privilege!

(that means that whenever there's a bill to pay I'm the one to pay it, right?)

> this website has a nice search engine which can be used as a starting point:
> http://www.colourlovers.com/
> 
> for instance, here are some example palettes, from which we can take
> only certain colors:
> http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/617935/Dutch_Seas
> http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1253503/shifting_sands_sea

I looked at these and many others and nothing seemed to work.

So I started with the two colors used for the gradient in our logo and
modified their saturation and value, keeping the hue intact. By playing
with this I came up with something that works fairly well for me.

And falling back on the Rank! and Privilege! comment earlier I pushed a
patch that made this the new default colors. My apologies, this messes
with existing settings as I want this to be index 0 (default) and
inserting this new index at the beginning causes the stored settings to
now be changed. Um. Bad. Oh well. You have been warned.

> i guess we can bundle something like 3-4-5 color schemes as a start.

We now have three.

BTW: when playing around with setting the colors, looking at things, going
back, hitting apply, cancel, etc I several times managed to have a color
(or in one case two colors) reset to #000000 (black). So there is
something fishy here, but I'm not able to give you a deterministic set of
steps to reproduce this :-(

Anyway, please take a look at the latest master... I'll kick of daily
builds...

/D