Re: [PyX-user] proposal for discrete palette

[Joerg L. <jo...@us...>]

Hello John,

On 17.06.06, John Owens wrote:
> Joerg Lehmann <joergl <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
> > I'd would like to suggest to use
> > 
> >  - color.gradient for the continuous version and
> >  - color.palette  for the discrete version
> > 
> > AFAIR, this is the notation used by Gimp and I remember to have prefered
> > the name "gradient" already quite some time ago 
> 
> FYI (Gimp links):
> http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-gradients.html
> http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-palettes.html

I'm pretty sure that using these new names would be better. 

> > I'd suggest to put it into color.py (if it's not too big). The hierarchy
> > should be something like (in the above proposed naming scheme):
> > 
> > color.palette.namexyz
> 
> So either color.palette is just fine to write, or attr.changelist also works.

I'm not sure I understand. color.palette.namexyz would be instances
of attr.changelist.

> color.palette breaks compatibility though (maybe not a bad thing),
> so comments on that would be appreciated.

It would break compatibility but we did worse things in the past. ;-)

        Jörg