Suggestion: "Remove all swatches" on Oekaki [poll]

[Pyromaniacal]

This is a minor QoL thing, but one that I at least would find quite useful.

To be clear, by "swatches" I mean this window, with saved "swatch" colors:


I use swatches when drawing/designing on the Oekaki and I'm sure many other artists do too. By default, Chickenpaint opens with 6 colors already saved (pure white, black, red, green, blue, and yellow, as pictured above), and some drawings open with many more (one base I frequently use opens with 43 saved swatches). I like to go through and clear all saved swatches before starting any work on a drawing so I can be sure that the colors I'm using are ones I've picked for what I'm doing rather than whatever was already there. Currently, I can only remove one swatch at a time — I have to right click an individual swatch and click again to remove it. This makes for 12 clicks on the default palette, and 86 clicks on the the aforementioned 43-click base. As you can imagine, this is annoying and incredibly time-consuming.

I would love for there to be an option somewhere to clear the entire swatch palette (remove all the saved colors) at once. There's already an "options" panel on the palette if you click the gear wheel icon - why not put this option with those? Perhaps, upon clicking this option, a popup could also be added asking the user to confirm that they wanted to clear their entire palette, in case of misclicks. That's only 3 clicks to clear the palette, as opposed to 12, or 86.

Here's a mockup of what I mean:


Thoughts?

Addendum by Kayara:

Also perhaps it could just start off empty? or maybe just black, white and the three primary colors if they want to leave something for new-b's?

Useful workaround by reyligion:

my current workaround for bases with huge swatches is loading a swatch i made that only has one color, pure white. as helpful as it is, i'd much rather also have the ability to clear all swatches in one go.

[hypnowave]

HUGE SUPPORT FOR THIS!! my current workaround for bases with huge swatches is loading a swatch i made that only has one color, pure white. as helpful as it is, i'd much rather also have the ability to clear all swatches in one go.

i don't think this really adds to your suggestion, but since i've never been able to talk about it before, i'll just say it here; i'd also really appreciate a way to rearrange/reorder the colors in a swatch if possible - i recently noticed i accidentally left out a particular color from my character's palette swatch. i could just tack it on at the very end, but that means it doesn't match the visual palette on his reference, and that just bugs me a teensy bit.

again, not particularly relevant to the discussion at hand, but i figured i'd toss it out there, haha

[Kayara]

Support!

yep. Yes. This, and the magic wand tool. (but that's a different topic) Also perhaps it could just start off empty? or maybe just black, white and the three primary colors if they want to leave something for new-b's?

[Pyromaniacal]

HUGE SUPPORT FOR THIS!! my current workaround for bases with huge swatches is loading a swatch i made that only has one color, pure white. as helpful as it is, i'd much rather also have the ability to clear all swatches in one go.

That's a genius workaround?? I'm a little upset I hadn't thought of it before, ahaha. It'll save me from that one really large palette, at least.

i don't think this really adds to your suggestion, but since i've never been able to talk about it before, i'll just say it here; i'd also really appreciate a way to rearrange/reorder the colors in a swatch if possible - i recently noticed i accidentally left out a particular color from my character's palette swatch. i could just tack it on at the very end, but that means it doesn't match the visual palette on his reference, and that just bugs me a teensy bit.

Oh, I would love this too. I spend way too much time futzing with palettes to make everything line up right.

Also perhaps it could just start off empty? or maybe just black, white and the three primary colors if they want to leave something for new-b's?

This is a good point - I'll add it to the main post.

[ahirked]

support! would definitely make it less time consuming!

[Guest]

maybe a poll on this would be helpful? :0

big support by the way!!

[Pyromaniacal]

maybe a poll on this would be helpful? :0

big support by the way!!

This is a good idea; I've added a poll!

[-GothicFairy-]

Support, it’s minor, but it’s a nuisance having to remove swatches one at a time

[jutdwae]

big support, this would save lots of time! starting out empty or with 1 colour (white) would also be nice! <3

[Koikee]

Support, this would save a ton of time. :3