Color Swapping

Swap or navigate via a toggle shortcut key on the History Palette dialog.

Current possibilities

  • Swap between FG/BG Colors via keyboard shortcut → screenshot Configure Keyboard Shortcuts.
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Configuring the current keyboard shortcut to swap the FG/BG colors.
  • Scrolling between swatches of the current tab Palette via Keyboard Shortcuts, on the color pickers (Change Foreground Color and FG/BG Color dialogs).

The 'context-foreground-palette-…' and 'context-background-palette-…' to scroll the all swatches of a palette.
But to use these shortcuts is necessary to have the Palette Colors tab and the Palette Editor opened or dockable Context actions on Palette dialogs.

Massimo Valentini Comment
I experimented a bit with these actions and I have found that they only work if the 'Palette Editor' is docked or at least open. So one has to open Windows->Dockable Dialogs->Palettes and double click on a palette, this way the 'Palette Editor' is opened and after that these shortcuts start working. They keep working even if the dockable is not the active tab.


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Configuring the current keyboard shortcut scrolling the swatches in a palette (thanks to Massimo Valentini).

Modifications of the Current features

  1. Create, if is possible, an action to swapping the colors on the current Palette without the Palette Editor dialog opened [see Massimo Valentini Comment].
  2. Create a shortcut action to scrolling the 'User Swatch Colors' (have a fast way to access the user swatch colors).
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User Swatch Colors in the 'FG/BG Color' and 'Change Foreground Color' dialogs.
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