Color picker available through context pad

[davidgs]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The color menu has moved from a palette to a sub-menu choice in Modeler 5.0. This makes accessing it for repeated tasks extremely painful (especially on a large screen on macOS). Every time I need to color an element I have to go all the way across the screen, to the Edit->SetColor->Choose color menu. Furthermore, there are no color swatches in the menu, and the choices are extremely limited.

Describe the solution you'd like

Move the color chooser to one of 3 places:

• back to the toolbar where it was conveniently located, easy to find, and easy to use.
• Make it part of the Properties panel where it would be easy to find and use
• make an actual fully-featured floating color chooser that can be opened in a separate window
• provide a keyboard shortcut to conveniently spawn it + use it
• Chosen approach: integrate via the context pad (requires Add multi-element context pad 'delete' action bpmn-io/bpmn-js#1525)

Describe alternatives you've considered

Pretty much anywhere where it's easy to find and convenient to use. Moving it ONLY to a menu option is not user-friendly

Additional context

It took me a long time to FIND the color menu in 5.0. The loss of the toolbar is a significant productivity killer. I know it "looks cleaner" but at the cost of usability and function I think is too high a price. The choices of colors are needlessly limited. Incorporating something like react-color would make this experience so much better.

[smbea]

As far as the Edit->SetColor->Choose color menu goes, the lack of color swatches was a bug that has been fixed by #2824

[MaxTru]

FYI @andreasgeier => let's collect this as Feedback.

@davidgs thanks for the feedback! The toolbar was delibaretly removed with 5.0 (see some reasoning in the blog post). So we will probably not bring it back to there (at least not immediately / of course we still collect feedback).

I think the option to have it as part of the propPanel interesting.

[nikku]

As discussed earlier: We should support this as part of multi select, as it is a grouping feature, at least this is what we consider it at bpmn.io. What we can also consider: Give coloring a keyboard binding, so there is no need to invoke it via the menu.

[davidgs]

FYI @andreasgeier => let's collect this as Feedback.

The toolbar was delibaretly removed with 5.0 (see some reasoning in the blog post).

I understand, though I still disagree with the removal of the toolbar :-) And I'm still questioning moving 'actions' like deploy, etc. to the status bar, since those are not status items, but then again, I'm not a visual designer. I just use the tool. :-)

Having a keybinding for color would be a massive improvement! And having it be a property panel item (since, if you think about it, the color is technically a property) would be nice too.

Thanks!

[smbea]

This was added through camunda/camunda-bpmn-js#217