Re: Any utility to adding a color wheel to WXT (and Qt) terminals?

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Often when I am developing a set of plot commands I'll just toss in some
> colors that are distinguishable, e.g., "red", "green".  Something quick.
>  But those colors are often too bright or too monochrome to view
> comfortably in a more "finished-product" plot such as a publication or
> application.  To choose customized colors "#RRGGBB", I often go to some
> color wheel (usually gimp) and pick the colors visually, for which the
> color wheel presents the associated RGB values.
>
> The thought just came to mind, Why not add a color wheel to the Qt and
> WXT terminals for the sake of convenience? [...]

When I'm doing that sort of thing, my go-to is gcolor2 -- much 
lighter than gimp -- http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/ I like to have 
not only a color wheel with a hex read-out but also an "eye-dropper" 
tool to grab a nice color from somewhere on the desktop if required. 
gcolor2 has that (as also gimp, of course).

Whether this sort of tool is something that gnuplot should arrange 
to provide, I don't know. I think it may fall under the "Swiss army 
knife" (good software should not aim to be) objection.

Allin Cottrell