Menus and toolbar

Menubar

The menu bar, located at the top of the GNOME Color Browser window, contains the following menus:

File

This menu contains the following commands:

  • New: this command allows you to create a new empty palette (see the section called Creating new palettes) or a new view of an existing palette in a different window.

  • Open (F3): this command opens an existing palette, prompting you to select a file containing this palette.

  • Save palette (Ctrl-S): saves current palette. Note that system palette can not be changed by a user, so this command has no effect in the system palette view. It also has no effect in search documents.

  • Save palette as: saves the current palette under a new name. Has no effect in search documents.

  • Revert: discard the changes you made to the current document, restoring the palette to the original state.

  • Close (Ctrl-W): allows you to close the current view or all views of the current document.

  • Exit (Ctrl-Q): exits the program.

Edit

This menu contains the following commands:

  • Copy (Ctrl-C): copies the currently selected color(s) to the clipboard

  • Paste (Ctrl-V): pastes the contents of the clipboard into current document.

  • Insert color: creates a new edit sub-window allowing you to define a new color and add it to the current document.

  • Remove selected colors: remove selected colors from the palette.

  • Edit selected colors: this command launches a new sub-window in which you can change the properties of selected colors (see the section called Editing a color).

  • Document/View properties: launches Properties dialog

  • Preferences : launches Preferences dialog

Help

This menu contains:

  • Manual: shows this manual.

  • About: shows basic information about GNOME Color Browser, such as the author's name and the application version number.

Toolbar

The toolbar is located under the menubar and contains the following buttons: