[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113858] Remove color palettes Breeze, Tango and LibreOffice

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113858

--- Comment #8 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #5)
> I strongly disagree with this fashion to remove existing functionalities
> under the pretext that they are used by less than 100% of the users.

Icon and brand color palettes are primarily used by icon designers and those
required to stick to sanctioned brand colors and as a result only have very few
colors in them, which results in very limited usage of such a color palette by
most users. (breeze has 31, tango has 29, libreoffice has 32)

If we look at the GSoC proposal for the new color picker, it didnt include the
tango palette in its design[1] and we dont use the tango palette for the tango
icon theme we ship, so tango wouldnt be used by the tango icon designers that
are in the design team, and the tango palette has long been abandoned.

As mentioned in comment 1, i was apposed to the addition of breeze for the
reason mentioned above, and my comment was ignored in bug 104050, and it wasnt
added based on data requesting that it be added. Also the breeze icon theme no
longer uses this limited color palette. I had suggested adding large color
palettes in bug 87541, which contain enough colors to be beneficial to be used.

The Libreoffice palette would be used by members of tdf and LO volunteers, but
wouldnt be used by any other users and as such servers no purpose to be bundled
by default.

> Please attach to this bug report an extension enabling the palette you want
> to remove. Indeed, even if it is possible to add palette via an extension,
> if nobody make this extension the functionality is lost.

For those interested in using these palettes, they are more than welcome to
create them and add them to the extension website. Heiko wrote up a guide to do
so here[2].

> So the extension
> must be available before removing the palettes from the standard
> installation and, as for dictionaries, a menu entry must be added to search
> new palettes on the extensions website.

Note that creation of the extension isnt a prerequisite of the palettes
removal, similar to the removal of the oxygen theme before its extension was
created. If a menu entry must be added to search for palettes on the extensions
website, then you should suggest that to the extension website maintainer.

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Color_Picker
[2]
https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/03/29/libreoffice-extension-export-custom-palette/

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