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Being able to add or remove colors from palette graphically

Open Lehonti opened this issue 7 months ago • 2 comments

We can already modify existing palette colors.

We can also import palettes

I'm thinking of having "+" and "🗑️" buttons (or something similarly simple) as well, so that having to import from a file is not necessary to have a custom palette.

It should not be too hard, since we have the color picker dialog and other ready-made utilities that will let the user know quite clearly what's happening.

If we are able to customize the palette easily, we could then make the dithering effect (#457) more useful, assuming that it can use said palette.

Lehonti avatar May 10 '25 01:05 Lehonti

BTW there is Edit -> Palette -> Set Number of Colors for changing the number of colours in the palette. I don't mind having UI buttons though if it's done without adding much clutter to the status bar 👍

One other improvement that would be nice is to have an alternate way of editing palette colors without requiring a middle click, since that doesn't work on a macOS touchpad, for example. Maybe something like Cmd/Ctrl + Click on a palette color

cameronwhite avatar May 10 '25 19:05 cameronwhite

Ideally, being able to have a list of palettes (so you don't have to import one every time you need to switch), and being able to edit the selected palette, would be the work flow here.

rolandixor avatar Sep 16 '25 15:09 rolandixor