https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32700
--- Comment #14 from Troy Rollo <[email protected]> --- This choice of colours comes from having sought to use a consistent colour scheme for inline edits, margin notes, and annotations in Draw. There are 9 define "Author" colour sets, each with a light, normal and dark colour. The author colours for annotations are chosen from the dark colour in the set, but with each colour in the set being a similar hue. For comments, these colours are used as follows: The comment box gets a background that is the light colour at the top, fading to the normal colour at the bottom, with the text at the bottom that identifies the author being in the dark colour. The first colour in the set uses a "normal" that is intended to appear like a stock yellow PostIt note, for use in the comments. The code even makes reference to "PostIt". This means that there has to be a particular usable relationship between the 3 colours in each of the 9 sets. However the text on the margin note body remains black on white, which gives a less than ideal appearance. There is a choice to be made here: 1. We can select the colour based on the inline "by-author" colour we want, then generate a contrasting "light" and "normal" colour (if the "by-author" colour is less than 50% luminousity, by making those colours near black rather than pastels). This will break the intended "post-it" appearance. This is not a difficult task. 2. We could leave the hard codings but move colour 1 down to colour 9, and start with colour 2 (which would give a first "by author" edit colour that is a navy blue. Again this would break the intended appearance of a standard post-it for the first author's comments. 3. We could abandon the by-author colouring for comments. As at today, Microsoft does not do this, instead having a red circle in the matching colour with the author's initials in white. LO also stops doing this when it is put in high contrast mode. 4. We could let the user define all three colours. Unattractive due to the number of selections required. 5. We could combine 1 & 4 - default to calculated colours and let the user edit them. The underlying structure needs to support this anyway so that we can have the existing colour sets continue if they have not been edited. I am reluctant to just drop the relationship between the inline edits and the comments, or to remove the comment colouring entirely, because that would involve dropping a dropping a long-standing feature. I am inclined to go with option 1, and let the post-it colours follow the track-changes by author colours. Does anybody else have any preferences for this? (Anybody who is interested in looking at the code for this, grep for COL_AUTHOR1) (Calc does things differently with its by-author colouring). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
