Krita’s popup palette has a triangular color selector. It spins as we change its hue. This looks cool, but it does not serve any real purpose.
In fact, I find it quite disorienting – the reference points (100% Saturation, 100% Brightness, 0% Brightness) are always moving. I have to look carefully before I click inside the triangle, EVERYTIME. As a result, I never used this color picker, and opted for the Advanced Color Selector docker instead.
With an Android tablet device, however, I don’t have enough screen space to place every docker I want. It would be nice if we can stop the triangle from spinning, so this color picker can be more efficient to use.
Thanks for the info! The problem is, it put me in unusual agony to find where kritarc is under Android. It can only be accessed by connecting the tablet to a PC via mtp protocol. And even when I can see it, it doesn’t allow me to edit it.
I’m sure I can eventually find a way by installing some 3rd party file manager and text editor, but I think that’s too much to ask for most people.
It’d be better if we can have an actual option in the Configure Krita dialogue.
On top of that, I wish it can be the default setting, so people don’t have to look up for these infos in the first place.
Yeah, it changes the lightness and saturation of the actual ring, but I prefer this than it spinning around.
Although… I think this conversation so far reflects a lot about the problem? 1) The name of the option doesn’t help people to establish a mental connection to what they want; 2) The default setting makes people willing to dig this deep to change it.
It’s funny that I have actually translated all of those options in the app, yet still failed to see what they can do for me without specific, external help from 3 different people…
I remember the advanced colour selector used to do the same thing and I hated it. I was very pleased when they changed it to a fixed position!
I’m not familiar with the limitations of android, but is it possible to set up a hotkey toggle to show/hide the dockers? That way you can just use the advanced colour selector and have more space when you hide the dockers.
The setting for that is in Configure Krita > Shortcuts > Menu > Settings > Show Dockers
@tysontan I just voted for your feature request. You should add your vote to it. Lots of votes doesn’t guarantee it will happen, but it gives the devs a picture for how much interest there is in a particular request.
I was able to find the file by browsing the device by plugging it into a PC via MTP protocol. Drove me nuts to find it, though. It is stored in an undocumented, different location than the desktop version (“settings” subfolder in Krita’s resource folder)…
However, every attempt to edit that file has been a failure. MTP protocol allowed me to see those files in my PC’s file manager, but I could not access its content. Android 13 has restricted the so-called “sensitive” file access. Now on the device, 3rd party file managers can access nothing, even with in-app prompts of “granting sensitive file access to this folder” and other permissions explicitly granted. I think I will have to root the device to get it done, which is not an option for me, and certainly not for most people, either.
Thankfully, the option mentioned by @Lesqwe56 can still be used as a workaround, although not perfect.
This will hide/show all dockers, wholesale. This is not what I was looking for, because I needed some dockers, like the Layers docker, to be always on screen.
But as an alternative, I can dock Advanced Color Selector with other dockers into tabs (up to 3 because of the screen size). It’s a bit less straight forward to access, but it’d work.
I’m resurrecting this thread to cast my vote for the original request: A sRGB palette that doesn’t spin.
The wide gamut option doesn’t cut it for me, it manages to be worse than the disorientingly spinning version because it eats the hues at the surrounding wheel and I’m a hue-oriented person.
I just want a well behaved palette that’s happy to sit still and not change at all except to to update the tiny circle selector coordinates. Don’t spin and make me stare at it to reorient myself every time it’s used, don’t touch the colors to preview anything, we have foreground and background swatches for that.
Sorry I didn’t understand this part but did you try the color selector popup? It’s tied to the advanced color selector, not the wide gamut one (I don’t like the square) and I don’t know squat about sRGB… BUT, you can chose between a lot of models:
I used the triangle as well, but using the color circle at the far right is really nice to control value and shift hue subtilly, I also made it double the size.
When I hit my shortcut it pops up right under my cursor with swatches.
I’m not sure if I understood your suggestion. Can you provide the path to that (eg settings > some setting < etc)?
I have the advanced color selector but I’m not talking about dockers, it’s about the behaviour of the popup palette selector conveniently placed under my mouse pointer.
This is a popup, but not the popup palette, based on the settings of your advanced color selector.
First try popping the palette up, see if you like it, the default shortcut is shift+i
It’s found as “Show color selector” in the shortcuts
I also use the color history popup. The brush presets and brush settings, I also pop them up. Allows me to pop only what I want to see, rather than the big multitool.
(But all in all, that doesn’t forbid having the possibility to stabilize the popup palette’s selector)
It’s a bit of a big issue to be forced to reserve a different shortcut for that, I’m using a pen remapper and don’t have enough room in my click tree without pushing another often used shortcut into a less accessible click combination (like 4x clicks and a little dance or something ).
But at least there’s an alternative color wheel that isn’t wildly reactive, and I like that it goes away when the cursor leaves the area/on click (impracticable with the regular popup due its floating options). I just wish it was instant, no animation is needed.
Oh right, you were prone to finger pain with the kbd…
Sometimes when the key is to be pressed with the hand holding the pen, i press the key with the pen.
For left-handed me, it would be d to reset colors or x to swap them.
It should not break the stylus.
Otherwise I guess it’s time to invest in pedals! I swear I thought of it for myself!
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