[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 106534] Color set/ palette for charts missing since reorganization of color palettes

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106534

--- Comment #17 from sophie <gautier.sophie at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #16)
> (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #15)
> > Calling colors by there alien names probably violates copyright. We should
> > rename the colors.
> 
> The point of the colors is for users to identify that they are the same
> chart color palette used by default in MSO, so not sure how renaming them
> from 'MS Office 201X XXXXXXX' would be of benefit or be understandable to
> users. Also i've seen other office suites that have also used similar
> naming, e.g. Softmaker Office[1] uses 'Excel 2010' and 'Excel 5.0', so doubt
> there is an issue. Also we do have 'MS Excel' in our help.
> 
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/
> 1Z1IBeqKnscoODgFDNm81iDnwkzxce92sEsYuMggnTDQ/edit#heading=h.5af7ly204war
> 
> [2] https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Section

We do have MS Excel when we refer to MS Excel functions or interoperability.
But it's not a good idea to rename palettes using Microsoft branding, it's
really not what we want to show our users and contributors. Please bring this
to legal at tdf before submitting such changes, thanks!. Sophie

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