global colours in application palette

[tariq]

Global colours are really helpful - they allow you to apply a "named colour" and then change that colour afterwards .. resulting in all objects using that named colour to also change.

Sadly this only works in Document palettes. 

It would be much more useful if global colours were possible in Application palettes so that the "named colours" could apply across documents - which is how many of us work - creating objects across many (hundreds even) files.

 

Tariq

 

[Christoph Daniel]

I agree that this would be an interesting feature. For a document I'm working on, I'm using the same colour scheme across dozens of diagrams.

However, there's one problem one would have to solve: if you send me a file that uses your application colours, how would it be displayed on my installation, where I haven't defined those colours? Doesn't even have to be me. It can be you, working on two computers, or reinstalling your computer.

Again, I agree that this might be an interesting feature, but it's not obvious to me how one would solve the corner cases.

[Wosven]

Or we should be able to import a palette in another color palette, those of same type (normal | global…) and names being kept or replaced depending of options all | none | choose.

For now, when importing another palette in a document that already have one, it's adding a second document's palette, and that's not really usefull.