Only make "readable" colors available

Bug #485962 reported by Fabián Rodríguez
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gobby
New
Unknown
gobby (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gobby

When many users have already entered a session, often times the number of color combinations is reduced and in order to at least join a session users end up choosing unreadabe color, such as back on dark blue background.

Although it may debatable what " readable " color combinations are, it would be prefereable to give this some thought and try to offer more sensible choices, as dark color will make content reading useless for the collaborators.

I lack the knowledge to propose a sensible logic to choose such colors, but the end result should be a readable collaboration session.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 20 11:45:08 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gobby 0.4.9-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gobby
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote :
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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote :

There was a patch for GTK (I think) posted on planet gnome a couple of years back. I have been unable to track it down with a couple of minutes of searching, but this sounds something that could usefully be used here.

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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote :

I' ve attached an example resulting of the current logic.

Source: http://identi.ca/notice/15205045

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Wishlisted as this is a request

Changed in gobby (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote :

While it's a request, it also makes the application quite unusable in large environments (like UDS), so I have changed this to medium and confirmed it.

Changed in gobby (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Wishlist → Medium
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/ticket/504

Changed in gobby (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Armin Burgmeier (arbu) wrote :

FWIW this is fixed in the experimental Gobby 0.4.9x series. It allows different people to have the same color, but, more importantly, the user only chooses a hue value for the color. This value is then made readable by adjusting saturation and value (in a HSV color model) locally at each site, taking into account the background color of the user's theme.

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote :

Here are some screenshots from me using Gobby during UDS. I found myself having to highlight text because I could not read it.

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote :
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Armin Burgmeier (arbu) wrote :

What about simply removing the check for duplicate colors?

Changed in gobby:
status: Unknown → New
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