>>> In Excel, the default background colour seems to >>>be yellow, so let's do something similar here – I don't like yellow >>>per se, but Excel users are probably used to yellow, so no need to >>>break the functionality for them. >>>So, I'd propose to use either "Yellow" or "Chart 3" as the default. > > I did some thinking (some, not a lot) on this matter. > It seems that the default colour for font and line colour buttons is > black and for background buttons (highlight excepted) is transparent. > That does not look usefull to me, is these are bound to be the default > colours of font, line, background anyway. > Isn't it a better idea to set the default colours as a contrastong > colour (eg COL_RED for font/line and COL_YELLOW for background) so that > users can 'mark' sections without choosing a colour?
To illustrate my suggestion, see attached diff file, which incidently also shows why Astron and Ivan where confused by the gray colour in the background button... I will fix that with my next split button patch. Winfried _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
