From: Richard B. <bo...@bo...> - 2003-10-25 05:42:50
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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:00 pm, Mark Hymers wrote: > The code I'm currently working on makes adding a dialog for any > ColourList very simple. Yeah, I know the technical aspect of this is reasonably straightforward but what I just plain don't like is the configurability aspect of it all. I don't want colours per entity - to me it just smacks of fiddling about with window manager colours ad infinitum as a youth. I also don't want a load of colour import code either. As an aside I baulk at the amount of partial document import we do already actually as I don't think this is importantant and not at all intuitive from a user perspective - I got steamrollered on that though. The original remit for this feature has been fulfilled and it works great. Let's leave it at that for the moment please. The rest of us are working to a tight release plan and we too have very limited time so this colour stuff currently counts as a dependency - that's why I brought this up. To me your reasons aren't good enough for wanting to change it from what it is and I also don't like the design implications of what you're suggesting from a user perspective. I sympathise with it interfering with your hopes for the feature at this stage but this is a democracy in that we discuss most stuff before implementing it (or most usually afterwards) and also an autocracy in terms of what actually goes in. So I would suggest you leave your changes for a post 1.0 discussion and I would also suggest that if you want to help out now that your skills are better used on bugs and remaining partial features as detailed in the rosegarden/docs/task_lists/1.0_release.txt. R |