Re: [XBoard-devel] 4.9.0 what's new

[Joshua Pettus]

> On Apr 2, 2016, at 3:24 AM, H.G. Muller <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Op 4/2/2016 om 1:55 AM schreef Joshua Pettus:
>> One more thing,
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>> Wouldn’t it be better if the starting color was the current color rather 
>> then black?
>> 
> Well, I wasn't sure that there would be any advantage to that (since the 
> current color was already displayed).
> It doesn't seem more likely that people would want a color close to the old; 
> if they mind enough to want it
> changed, they usually want something completely different. So any starting 
> point seems as good as any other.
> 
> If the Board dialog did contain nothing for each color than this button, the 
> sensible thing to do would
> be to start them in the default color of the option they control, so that 
> people could just OK it to reset.
> But because of the way this has evolved we have redundant text-representation 
> and reset buttons
> outside the picker dialog, and resetting by opening the dialog first is only 
> cumbersome.

Maybe you’re right, regarding the eyedroper.  I wonder if gimp hangs when it’s 
pressed.  If not.  what do they do differently?  I’ll try to find this out for 
you.