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It seems that a standard task in graphic design is to define a color palette: a small set of colors that are used throughout a work to provide a consistent, unified color scheme. For example, we want to use the following for example reports: * Dark Blue Background RGB(45,140,200) * Medium Blue Background RGB(195,217, 255) * Pale Blue Background RGB(224, 236,255) * Light Gray Background RGB(240,240,235) * Yellow Background RGB(250,215,100) * Pale Yellow Background RGB(255, 241, 168) * Pale Green Background RGB(181, 237, 188) * Black Text * Blue Text RGB(49,76,124) With current BIRT, I must enter the specific RGB value into each style I create. However, this does make it tedious to verify the colors, and makes it very hard to change colors. The style and property sheet editors today allow me to choose one of the standard CSS color names. BIRT also provides the ability to define custom colors in the color UI now, but not with names. As a result, I can't verify that I'm selecting the proper color (Heading Blue) for example by checking the name. Nor can I verify that I'm using a custom color, rather than an RGB value that is close. Further, it's not clear that I can change the custom color and have the change be picked up by all report items that use the custom color. Also, since the custom color has no name, it does not appear in the color name chooser pulldown. Requested is the following: * Provide UI to create and edit custom, named colors that persist as part of a report or library. * Ability to choose that name from a color property pulldown.
