quick palette for user-colors

[musikBear]

This idea is really first interesting, when lmms have user-controlled colors on all blocks in song-editor. Then i think a method to fast color-changes, will enhance workflow
The img is just a crude mockup, and this should ofcause be seriously improved -An array 4*4 of tablets would be neat.
I suggest that a right-click in a tablet-field would let user insert a color-through a color-dialog, and left-click let user pick that color for the next block-operation
Mockup

[Wallacoloo]

I don't know about that. Placing too many non-essential controls in the main toolbar makes things feel a bit overwhelming.

[Spekular]

Slightly related/tangent: One idea I've been pondering is to have a palette of preset colors in the colorize menu and only allow those. If the palette is set through a theme file, the palette idea is less restrictive, and you'll never open a project to find that the original artist chose colors that are poorly fitting/poorly visible in your theme. It also simplifies the menu, and possibly simplifies storing colors for tons of tracks. @diizy would address your concerns? As for how this relates to this issue, you can cherry pick the part where the palette is in the colorize menu and not the toolbar.

[tresf]

I would advocate for an auto-rotation of a color palette, similar to what @Spekular describes, and we can leave it off by default. Letting a user pick a color from the default palette or a custom palette shouldn't be a problem. If the color is hard to read, they can just change it to a theme-compatible color.

This also can give a quick visual indicator to a mixer channel per something like #1214.

But this is really a duplicate of #1176 and can be consolidated into @Spekular's #1665

[Spekular]

@musikBear this issue has been consolidated into #1665 as it has to do with user definable colors.

[tresf]

@musikBear this issue has been/will be consolidated into #1665 as it has to do with user definable colors.

@Spekular that's your thread. You should probably add the #XXXX to the appropriate bullet point so we don't loose track of this one.

[Spekular]

@tresf I know, and I have. I said "will be" because it feels odd saying the issue "has been" consolidated when it's still open.

[tresf]

@Spekular sorry, I thought it would be bundled with "Improving colored tracks"

As part of a pruning effort, this enhancement request is archived into a dedicated "Better Workflow" checklist here #4877.