I Hate the New Color Picker

Mon Dec 8 14:55:57 EST 2014

Should have said my screen shot showing the dot is LC community 6.7.1 (RC3) running on iMac 21.5 Yosemite 10.10.1

The dot show on TextEdit, Numbers, Pages.

All the best

Terry

> On 8 Dec 2014, at 19:49, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, this is strange. I was checking out the color picker in Yosemite
> using TextEdit, which incidentally, doesn't have those Cancel and OK
> buttons, but has the dot to pull down the color dock. When I call up the
> color picker in LC, I get the same view as Geoff, with two lines of palette
> docks and no dot to extend the dock section. Unlike Roger, I couldn't find
> the "sweet spot" to make this work.
> 
> Apparently, LC has modified the system color wheel to a certain extent.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:21 AM, William de Smet <williamdesmet at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Geoff,
>> 
>> This is my ColorPicker. I only have one visible line.
>> I am on Yosemite 10.10.1 with LC 6.6.5 on a 21,5 inch iMac.
>> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkqwsgvu6i5q7tz/ColorPickerYosemite.png?dl=0
>> 
>> greetings,
>> 
>> William
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2014-12-08 19:57 GMT+01:00 Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> William, I'm with you: no small dot, no resizing -- vertically, at least
>> --
>>> I can make the color picker wider up to a point. Here's a link to a
>> screen
>>> shot:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ahzx78f6kzudgcl/Screenshot%202014-12-08%2013.56.46.png?dl=0
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Poke around just between and above the Cancel and OK btns and you’ll
>> find
>>>> the sweet spot where the cursor turns to a hand.
>>>> 
>>>> Roger
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 9:28 AM, William de Smet <williamdesmet at gmail.com
>>> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Can someone post a screenshot because I don't see a small dot on the
>>>>> Yosemite color picker.
>>>>> I am also stuck with one row of colors.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>> 
>>>>> William
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2014-12-08 8:17 GMT+01:00 Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I wouldn't have seen it myself if I hadn't used my large Holmesian
>>>>>> magnifying glass.;-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank you Howard! There’s a tiny dot there that I had not noticed.
>>> You
>>>>>>> don’t know how many times I tried to pull down from every point
>> other
>>>>>> than
>>>>>>> that tiny dot to no avail. What a twit I am!!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Dec 7, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Howard Bornstein <
>>> bornstein at designeq.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Just pull down from the bottom of the color picker patches and
>>> you'll
>>>>>> get
>>>>>>>> 10 rows, just like earlier versions.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Just the flatness of it, but more importantly, the limit of just
>>> one
>>>>>> row
>>>>>>>>> of color patches. I was used to using multiple rows to record and
>>>>>> manage
>>>>>>>>> multiple projects. I realize now that It’s no biggie, and I
>>>>>> overreacted!
>>>>>>>>> I’ll build a better tool for what I need and offer to all to make
>>> up
>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>>> petulance.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Roger
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Dec 7, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> How does the color picker look different to you? I'm on Yosemite
>>> and
>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>>>> looks the same as I remember: color picker choices across the
>> top:
>>>>>>> color
>>>>>>>>>> wheel (default), color sliders, etc.; then the color wheel
>> itself
>>>>>> below
>>>>>>>>>> that; then the saturation slider below that; then the actual
>> color
>>>>>>>>> selected
>>>>>>>>>> and the saved colors below that; and finally the cancel and okay
>>>>>>> buttons
>>>>>>>>>> below that.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I’m sure the new color picker is totally Apple’s (Yosemite)
>>> fault,
>>>>>>> but I
>>>>>>>>>>> hate it? It’s ugly and not as functional as the old one.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Is there anything I can do about it, like go back to the old
>> one?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> TIA,
>>>>>>>>>>> Roger
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