Documents and views

GNOME Color Browser uses the term "document" to refer to any collection of colors, each each color given a name. The simplest type of document is a palette, which is just a collection of colors listed in a file; this is described in the section called Working with palettes. Another type of document is search document, which is a list of colors closely matching a given one found in various palettes. In addition, GNOME Color Browser provides a number of different ways, or "view modes" to show the same document. Available view modes include:

Regardless of the view you use, you can drag any of the color sample rectangles to GNOME Panel, GNOME Terminal, and many other GNOME applications windows to change their background colors.