CintaNotes Developer wrote:ChrisCN wrote:Gmail takes a different approach (see screenshot attached): They show a colored square next to the tag which can be clicked to define/alter the color.
Nice idea. Since not all tags will be colored, the tag sidebar won't look too much like a Christmas tree
Yes, I see this as an advantage too.
CintaNotes Developer wrote:For me: "no". I am just thinking of it as a visual clue - the whole functionality is already implemented in the tag.
One additional remark: One can choose the foreground and the background color (at least in Gmail).
I think for CN this will be overkill. Too much colors. Wouldn't picking just the background color be enough?
I can think of two reasons why a foreground color would be useful:
1) with only the default foreground color the tags get unreadable for some background colors (same tint, same brightness) or look very ugly - like this sample...
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(of course you could try to implement a clever algorithm to automatically set an appropriate foreground color - but that sounds like an overkill to me)
2) the foreground color could be used to give additional information (e.g background=red > means:"TASK", foreground=dark red > means:"OPEN", foreground=grey > means:"DONE").
But then, you are right too.
Choosing the background color is the major part of the request and would be sufficient as a compromise.
CintaNotes Developer wrote:BTW what about tag edit boxes? Implementing colors there would be anything but easy. But I think this is necessary to maintain consistency.
I think I don't get what you mean -> "tag edit boxes". Do you mean the properties dialog of a tag?