Agave 0.4.1 review

Agave is a simple GNOME application for generating colorschemes. Agave lets you select a starting color and generate six differen

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 258K Developer: Jonathon Jongsma

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Agave is a simple GNOME application for generating colorschemes.

Agave lets you select a starting color and generate six different kinds of colorschemes. The colors can then be copied to the clipboard for easy use in HTML and CSS. It is currently a very simple but useful utility. More functionality will be added in future versions.

Agave was previously named GNOME Colorscheme.

Here are some key features of "Agave":
Generate 6 different types of color schemes: Complements, Split Complements, Triads, Tetrads, Analogous, and Monochromatic
Select a color that's displayed anywhere on the screen ("dropper" tool)
Easily change the lightness or saturation of a colorscheme with a toolbar button
Copy the hexstring (e.g. "#336699") of a color to the clipboard for use in CSS and HTML files
Save your favorite colors to a 'Favorites' list for easy reference and export your favorites as a Gimp Palette file
Navigate back and forward through history of previously selected colors
Choose colors from a palette of pre-defined "web-safe" colors (more palettes to come soon)
Drag and Drop between Agave and the Gimp, as well as many other programs
Generate a random colorscheme if you're stuck and need some inspiration.
User interface translated into English, Dutch (nl), German (de), Spanish (es_ES), Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR), Russian (ru), Czech (cs), and Bulgarian (bg).

Requirements:
GTK+ version 2.8.x
gtkmm
libboost
gconfmm (optional)
libgnomeui (optional)
cppunit (optional)

What's New in This Release:
Moved user configuration directory from ~/.agave to ~/.local/share/agave to reduce home directory dotfile pollution. Configuration files will be migrated automatically.
Added the ability to use different palette files. 4 palette files are shipped by default (Websafe, GNOME icon palette, Tango palette, and Visibone palette). Palettes are standard Gimp Palette files (.gpl) and can be added by dropping a file in ~/.local/share/agave/palettes

Bugfixes
Fixed an issue when compiling with g++ 4.1
Improve handling of removing multiple colors from the favorites list

Build
Building from git now requires Intltool 0.35

Translations
updated German translation (Martin Ereth)
Added Italian translation (Sergio Durzu)
Added Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander)