Better color selector?

[mgedmin]

I've defined a graph for showing swap usage:

The default colors do not work very well for this. I'd like to change the swap.cached to something else.

Here's what I have to do:

• click the edit icon (nice)
• click the edit template icon (nice, although I didn't notice it at first)
• click Next
• click on the little contrast symbol next to swap.cached
• click the color selector (Chrome renders it like this):

• click the weird-looking box-with-a-smaller-box (it's actually <input type="color">)
• pick a color in the modal color selection dialog (implemented by Chrome):
  

What makes me sad:

• the pre-selected color is white instead of what actually gets used in the current graph
• the color selector is based on RGB and not HSV (but you can't do anything about it, short of not using <input type="color">)
• there are no presets

E.g. if I wanted to swap the colors, I'd have to take a screenshot, open it in an image editor, discover the RGB values used for the default colors, then enter them.

[mgedmin]

Swapping the colors is also a bit unpleasant, even after I figure out the RGB values.

[vbatoufflet]

Hi Marius,

We are working on a new UI version.

The new color picker present in it won't use the builtin <input type="color"…> element and will be fully integrated to the UI.

I guess we can think of a way to save some predefined colors and/or a list of the n last picked colors.

[mgedmin]

AFAIU currently the default colors get picked by HighCharts, is that right? Having the color picker list these (or maybe just the first 10-20, if there are many), plus an option for a custom color, would be nice.

[vbatoufflet]

Addressed in 0.4-alpha.