Edit > Properties... -- Add colour depth?

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Edit > Properties... -- Add colour depth?

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Could image colour depth please be added to Edit > Properties...

And maybe also include the number of colours Image > Count colors used at the same time?


[Not sure why Properties is in the Edit menu when the properties can't be changed there, wouldn't View > Properties have been a more natural location?]
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Re: Edit > Properties... -- Add colour depth?

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cday wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pmCould image colour depth please be added to Edit > Properties...
I support this request.

cday wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pmwouldn't View > Properties have been a more natural location?
Or better yet FileProperties (in view as well as in browse mode)?
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Re: Edit > Properties... -- Add colour depth?

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XnTriq wrote: Tue Nov 02, 2021 4:00 am
cday wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pmCould image colour depth please be added to Edit > Properties...
I support this request.

cday wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pmwouldn't View > Properties have been a more natural location?
Or better yet FileProperties (in view as well as in browse mode)?

I rarely check the 'number of colours' in an image, but it seems sensible to include all image information in one place, rather than have to first think where to look, and then make two clicks.
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Re: Edit > Properties... -- Add colour depth?

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cday wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pm Could image colour depth please be added to Edit > Properties...
I think that you talk about 'edit mode'?
You have '# of bits'?
And maybe also include the number of colours Image > Count colors used at the same time?
This can take some time to compute it...
[Not sure why Properties is in the Edit menu when the properties can't be changed there, wouldn't View > Properties have been a more natural location?]
It was like that in Classic :) but right perhaps File>Properties is better??
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Re: Edit > Properties... -- Add colour depth?

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xnview wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:21 am
cday wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pm Could image colour depth please be added to Edit > Properties...
I think that you talk about 'edit mode'?
You have '# of bits'?
If Edit > Change color depth is used to set a 24-bit image to, for example, 64 colours then '# of bits' remains at 24 bits, I believe. I suggest 'Colour depth' '64' be added to the parameters listed...

xnview wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:21 am
cday wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pmAnd maybe also include the number of colours Image > Count colors used at the same time?
This can take some time to compute it...
Understood...

xnview wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:21 am
[Not sure why Properties is in the Edit menu when the properties can't be changed there, wouldn't View > Properties have been a more natural location?]
It was like that in Classic :) but right perhaps File>Properties is better??
I think so, no need to be constrained now by 'Classic when there is a better way... :D
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Re: Edit > Properties... -- Add colour depth?

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cday wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:42 am If Edit > Change color depth is used to set a 24-bit image to, for example, 64 colours then '# of bits' remains at 24 bits, I believe. I suggest 'Colour depth' '64' be added to the parameters listed...
Ok, so your problem is for coloured image, to have the count of used colors?
xnview wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:21 am I think so, no need to be constrained now by 'Classic when there is a better way... :D
So File menu?
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Re: Edit > Properties... -- Add colour depth?

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xnview wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 12:43 pm
cday wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:42 am If Edit > Change color depth is used to set a 24-bit image to, for example, 64 colours then '# of bits' remains at 24 bits, I believe. I suggest 'Colour depth' '64' be added to the parameters listed...
Ok, so your problem is for coloured image, to have the count of used colors?
No, when I open Image > Change color depth... after previously reducing the colour depth, to say 64 colours, the reopened menu shows the current colour depth (64). I am requesting, and I understood XnTriq to support, that value be added to the Properties parameters displayed (by, for me, clicking on the toolbar 'i' icon).

And...

In a quote that doesn't display correctly, you suggest that Properties be moved from the Edit menu (where the image properties can not be edited) to the File menu; that would probably be an improvement, but I suggest that the Image menu, where Count colors used is already located, might be more logical.
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See issue for current status and some details.
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This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 0.99.4. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.
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