I consider "Show" to be passive. That is, any information displayed will no be editable.
In this case, I want to "Select," or "Choose," or "Specify," or "Define," or... whatEVER, a color.
I want to be able to enter/add a color value by way of the process of visually referencing a color. While I want to SEE a representation of the color I'm choosing, simply "Showing" a color it is not what I want to do.
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On Dec 13, 2007, at 8:42 PM, Rob McBroom wrote:
On 2007-Dec-13, at 3:51 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 13 Dec 2007, at 16:23, Rob McBroom wrote:
On Dec 13, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient wrote:
Maybe "Insert Color with Color Picker…" ?
I think just "Color Picker…" would give you a pretty good idea what it does.
Should we also change “Open…” into “File Requester…” or maybe “Open File with File Requester…” ;)
Ha. OK, I see what you're getting at. Let me put it this way. I wanted this very feature the other day when messing with some CSS, but didn't "discover" it (to use Thomas's word). I only know about it because of this thread. I ended up using Xylescope or something to get the right color. If it had been labeled "Color Picker…", I would have instead said "Oh, cool. It *is* there."
Of course, when *I'm* the one developing an application, I expect the users to adapt to the correct terminology, rather than me doing something incorrectly to meet expectations. :)
"Show Colors…" (*with* the ellipsis) is better than what we've got, but it still would leave me wondering if it was going to be a drop- down full of hexadecimal numbers or what. I guess some people would say the same about "color picker" though. How about "Open a Graphical Color Selection Panel in a Separate Window That Will Insert a Hexadecimal Representation of the Selected Color when Closed…"?
Rob McBroom http://www.skurfer.com/