Merge pull request #1677 from marcoarnulfo/fix/color-picker-remembers-mode

Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart
2026-10-14 19:26:56 -04:00 · 2026-10-14 04:28:10 +07:00
commit c2a944a686
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
 //! picking a mode from the menu makes it a process colour.
 //!
 //! The mode follows the colour's own model (the last mode picked comes back for colours in its
-//! model). Alt-clicking the spectrum or a chip paints the inactive proxy; Shift-clicking the
-//! spectrum cycles the modes; Shift-dragging a slider moves the others in tandem; RGB and HSB show
-//! the out-of-gamut warning; Hide Options leaves just the proxy and the spectrum.
+//! model and shows the defaults for new art; the app keeps it between sessions). Alt-clicking the
+//! spectrum or a chip paints the inactive proxy; Shift-clicking the spectrum cycles the modes;
+//! Shift-dragging a slider moves the others in tandem; RGB and HSB show the out-of-gamut warning;
+//! Hide Options leaves just the proxy and the spectrum.

 use egui::{Color32, Rect, Sense, Stroke, StrokeKind, Ui, vec2};
 use serde_json::json;
@@ -19,7 +20,8 @@ use crate::theme::Tokens;
 use crate::widgets::{self, Live, menu_item};
 use crate::{VectorcraftApp, icons};

-#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, serde::Serialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
 pub enum Mode {
    Grayscale,
    #[default]
@@ -246,6 +248,23 @@ pub(crate) fn gamut_fix(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ctx: &egui::Context, key: &str
    }
 }

+/// Serde reader for the saved panel mode ([`crate::UiState::color_mode`]): a menu mode, else none,
+/// so an unknown value doesn't lose the rest of the preferences.
+pub fn deserialize_mode<'de, D: serde::Deserializer<'de>>(d: D) -> Result<Option<Mode>, D::Error> {
+    let v = <serde_json::Value as serde::Deserialize>::deserialize(d)?;
+    Ok(Mode::ALL.into_iter().find(|m| serde_json::to_value(m).is_ok_and(|id| id == v)))
+}
+
+/// The mode the panel shows `color` in: with nothing selected (the defaults for new art) the mode
+/// picked last, which the app keeps between sessions, else [`display_mode`].
+fn shown_mode(app: &VectorcraftApp, color: Option<&Color>) -> Mode {
+    let defaults = app.session.active().is_none_or(|st| st.selection.subjects().is_empty());
+    match app.ui.color_mode {
+        Some(m) if defaults => m,
+        stored => display_mode(stored, color),
+    }
+}
+
 /// The panel mode for `color`: the one picked last (`stored`) when it shows the colour's own
 /// model (HSB and Web Safe RGB show RGB), else the colour's model.
 pub fn display_mode(stored: Option<Mode>, color: Option<&Color>) -> Mode {
@@ -410,8 +429,8 @@ fn apply_tint(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, tgt: &Target, tint: &Tint, t: f32, phase

 /// Switch the panel to `mode`, converting the colour to its model (a tint becomes a process
 /// colour).
-fn set_mode(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ctx: &egui::Context, tgt: &Target, mode: Mode) {
-    set_pstate(ctx, "color-mode", Some(mode));
+fn set_mode(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, tgt: &Target, mode: Mode) {
+    app.ui.color_mode = Some(mode);
    if let Some(c) = tgt.color() {
        let conv = convert_to(mode, &c);
        if conv != c || tgt.tint().is_some() {
@@ -472,7 +491,7 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
    let t = Tokens::get(ui.ctx());
    let tgt = target(app, ui);
    let color = tgt.color();
-    let mode = display_mode(pstate(ui.ctx(), "color-mode"), color.as_ref());
+    let mode = shown_mode(app, color.as_ref());
    let alt = super::alt_held(ui);
    // Hide Options: just the proxy and the spectrum.
    if pstate::<bool>(ui.ctx(), "color-hide-options") {
@@ -484,7 +503,7 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
            .inner;
        match hit {
            Some(SpectrumHit::Pick(c, phase)) => apply(app, &tgt, c, phase, alt),
-            Some(SpectrumHit::Cycle) => set_mode(app, ui.ctx(), &tgt, mode.next()),
+            Some(SpectrumHit::Cycle) => set_mode(app, &tgt, mode.next()),
            None => {}
        }
        return;
@@ -614,7 +633,7 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
    ui.add_space(4.0);
    match spectrum(ui, mode, vec2(ui.available_width(), 46.0)) {
        Some(SpectrumHit::Pick(c, phase)) => pick(c, phase, &mut new),
-        Some(SpectrumHit::Cycle) => set_mode(app, ui.ctx(), &tgt, mode.next()),
+        Some(SpectrumHit::Cycle) => set_mode(app, &tgt, mode.next()),
        None => {}
    }
    if let Some((c, phase)) = behind {
@@ -639,10 +658,10 @@ pub fn menu(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
    let tgt = target(app, ui);
    let color = tgt.color();
    // Tint mode checks no colour mode: picking one makes the tint a process colour.
-    let cur = display_mode(pstate(ui.ctx(), "color-mode"), color.as_ref());
+    let cur = shown_mode(app, color.as_ref());
    for m in Mode::ALL {
        if menu_item(ui, tl!(m.label()), true, m == cur && tgt.tint().is_none()) {
-            set_mode(app, ui.ctx(), &tgt, m);
+            set_mode(app, &tgt, m);
        }
    }
    ui.separator();
@@ -818,15 +837,67 @@ mod tests {
        // In the panel: an RGB pick, then a CMYK object shows its 4 sliders.
        let mut app = app();
        let ctx = egui::Context::default();
-        set_pstate(&ctx, "color-mode", Some(Mode::Rgb));
+        app.ui.color_mode = Some(Mode::Rgb);
        app.run("paint.setFill", json!({"color": {"c": 0.1, "m": 0.2, "y": 0.3, "k": 0.4}})).unwrap();
        frame(&mut app, &ctx, vec![], egui::Modifiers::NONE);
        let _ = ctx.run_ui(Default::default(), |ui| {
-            let mode = display_mode(pstate(ui.ctx(), "color-mode"), target(&app, ui).color().as_ref());
+            let mode = shown_mode(&app, target(&app, ui).color().as_ref());
            assert_eq!(mode.labels(), ["C", "M", "Y", "K"]);
        });
    }

+    /// The slider labels one frame of the panel draws.
+    fn slider_labels(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ctx: &egui::Context) -> Vec<String> {
+        fn texts(s: &egui::Shape, out: &mut Vec<String>) {
+            match s {
+                egui::Shape::Text(t) => out.push(t.galley.text().to_string()),
+                egui::Shape::Vec(v) => v.iter().for_each(|s| texts(s, out)),
+                _ => {}
+            }
+        }
+        let mut full = ctx.run_ui(Default::default(), |ui| show(app, ui));
+        full.textures_delta.clear();
+        let mut out = vec![];
+        full.shapes.iter().for_each(|s| texts(&s.shape, &mut out));
+        out.retain(|t| ["K", "R", "G", "B", "H", "S", "C", "M", "Y"].contains(&t.as_str()));
+        out
+    }
+
+    /// #1675: the mode picked last is kept with the UI state, which the app saves with its
+    /// preferences, so after a restart the panel shows the defaults for new art in it. A selected
+    /// colour still shows in its own model.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_picked_mode_comes_back_after_a_restart() {
+        let mut app = app();
+        app.run("file.documentColorMode", json!({"mode": "cmyk"})).unwrap();
+        app.run("select.none", json!({})).unwrap();
+        let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+        assert_eq!(slider_labels(&mut app, &ctx), ["R", "G", "B"], "the white default is RGB");
+        let _ = ctx.run_ui(Default::default(), |ui| {
+            let tgt = target(&app, ui);
+            set_mode(&mut app, &tgt, Mode::Cmyk);
+        });
+        assert_eq!(slider_labels(&mut app, &ctx), ["C", "M", "Y", "K"]);
+        // Quit and start again: the saved UI state comes back, the session and the panel are new.
+        let saved: crate::UiState = serde_json::from_value(serde_json::to_value(&app.ui).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(Session::new(), Default::default());
+        app.ui = saved.sanitized();
+        app.run("file.new", json!({"width": 200, "height": 200})).unwrap();
+        app.run("file.documentColorMode", json!({"mode": "cmyk"})).unwrap();
+        assert!(matches!(crate::panels::current_paints(&app).0.color(), Some(Color::Rgb { .. })), "the defaults start as RGB white");
+        let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+        assert_eq!(slider_labels(&mut app, &ctx), ["C", "M", "Y", "K"]);
+        app.run("shape.rectangle", json!({"x": 10, "y": 10, "width": 50, "height": 50})).unwrap();
+        app.run("paint.setFill", json!({"color": "#336699", "keepModel": true})).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(slider_labels(&mut app, &ctx), ["R", "G", "B"], "an RGB object shows RGB");
+        // A saved value that isn't a menu mode reads as none, and the rest of the state still loads.
+        for v in [json!("lab"), json!("CMYK"), json!(3), serde_json::Value::Null] {
+            let ui: crate::UiState = serde_json::from_value(json!({"color_mode": v, "place_link": false})).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!((ui.color_mode, ui.place_link), (None, false), "{v}");
+        }
+        assert_eq!(serde_json::from_value::<crate::UiState>(json!({"color_mode": "websafe"})).unwrap().color_mode, Some(Mode::WebSafe));
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn lab_colours_show_lab_sliders_with_signed_ranges() {
        let lab = Color::lab(50.0, -20.0, 30.0);
@@ -847,7 +918,7 @@ mod tests {
        app.run("paint.setFill", json!({"color": {"l": 50, "a": -20, "b": 30}})).unwrap();
        frame(&mut app, &ctx, vec![], egui::Modifiers::NONE);
        let _ = ctx.run_ui(Default::default(), |ui| {
-            let mode = display_mode(pstate(ui.ctx(), "color-mode"), target(&app, ui).color().as_ref());
+            let mode = shown_mode(&app, target(&app, ui).color().as_ref());
            assert_eq!(mode.labels(), ["L", "a", "b"]);
        });
    }
@@ -887,10 +958,10 @@ mod tests {
        let ctx = egui::Context::default();
        app.run("paint.setFill", json!({"color": "#336699"})).unwrap();
        click_spectrum(&mut app, &ctx, (0.5, 0.5), egui::Modifiers::SHIFT);
-        assert_eq!(pstate::<Option<Mode>>(&ctx, "color-mode"), Some(Mode::Hsb));
+        assert_eq!(app.ui.color_mode, Some(Mode::Hsb));
        assert_eq!(paints_hex(&app).0, "#336699", "HSB keeps the RGB colour");
        click_spectrum(&mut app, &ctx, (0.5, 0.5), egui::Modifiers::SHIFT);
-        assert_eq!(pstate::<Option<Mode>>(&ctx, "color-mode"), Some(Mode::Cmyk));
+        assert_eq!(app.ui.color_mode, Some(Mode::Cmyk));
        assert!(matches!(crate::panels::current_paints(&app).0.color(), Some(Color::Cmyk { .. })), "CMYK converts the colour");
    }

@@ -965,7 +1036,7 @@ mod tests {
        // Picking a mode makes it a process colour.
        let _ = ctx.run_ui(Default::default(), |ui| {
            let tgt = target(&app, ui);
-            set_mode(&mut app, ui.ctx(), &tgt, Mode::Cmyk);
+            set_mode(&mut app, &tgt, Mode::Cmyk);
        });
        assert!(matches!(crate::panels::current_paints(&app).0, Paint::Solid { swatch: None, .. }));
    }
@@ -364,6 +364,10 @@ pub struct UiState {
    /// buttons follow ([`crate::panels::align::with_align_to`]).
    #[serde(default, deserialize_with = "crate::panels::align::deserialize_align_to")]
    pub align_to: crate::panels::align::AlignTo,
+    /// Color panel: the mode picked last from its menu (`None`: never picked), in which the panel
+    /// shows the defaults for new art ([`crate::panels::color::deserialize_mode`]).
+    #[serde(default, deserialize_with = "crate::panels::color::deserialize_mode")]
+    pub color_mode: Option<crate::panels::color::Mode>,
    /// The SVG Options chosen last (`svg` object of the export/save commands; null: never used).
    #[serde(default)]
    pub svg_options: Value,
@@ -644,6 +648,7 @@ impl Default for UiState {
            flattener_preview: Default::default(),
            color_guide_limit: String::new(),
            align_to: Default::default(),
+            color_mode: None,
            svg_options: Value::Null,
            place_link: true,
            dialog_file: None,
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: docLine truncated
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines Line truncated

 The authoritative parity assessment. [`ROADMAP.md`](../ROADMAP.md) summarizes it; [`gaps.md`](gaps.md) is
 the work list made from it. Deep areas have their own checklists: [UI and interaction](ui-parity.md),
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
 - **Advanced art:** live Blends (steps/distance/smooth colour, editable spine, anchor-targeted Blend tool, faithful interpolation, knockout), Envelope Distort (warp/mesh/top object, Reset, full Envelope Options, mesh handles, Edit Contents; type, images, symbols, gradients, patterns and appearance distorted everywhere), Liquify tools with options and pen pressure, Puppet Warp with rotating pins, Perspective Grid with presets, movable planes and projected type (choosing a perspective tool shows the grid; Hide Grid hides it with the tool still chosen), Gradient Mesh, Shape Builder (stroke-only open paths and lines cut the regions they cross and enclose regions of their own, and regions they bound merge without seams where the lines cross at rounded coordinates (#893); filled open paths count as closed; erase mode while Alt/Option is held: a minus pointer, red highlights of what will go, a click or drag deletes the regions touched, the pieces of open lines and the edges (outline pieces between the points where paths meet, opening their paths there) it passes over, one undo step, `shapeBuilder.merge {erase}` and `shapeBuilder.regions` edges over MCP), Live Paint (every path an edge, open lines included), Image Trace (12 presets, colour layers traced in parallel; a trace past two million anchor points is refused with advice rather than running out of memory, an image over 64 megapixels is traced scaled down to that size (aspect kept, paths at the image's own size) and one over 192 megapixels is refused, and a selection too large to outline shows its bounds (#525); Object › Image Trace › Make and Make and Expand trace at once with the Default preset, #543; with an image selected the Control bar and the Properties panel show Image Trace, whose arrow traces with any preset, Mask (`object.maskImage`: a clipping path on the image's outline, selected so its handles crop), Crop Image (a crop box on the image, starting on its part over the artboard, dragged by its handles or inside it, the outside dimmed, with X/Y/W/H, Apply and Cancel in the Control bar, Enter and Escape, #734; `object.cropImage {rect}` for agents, `{trim: true}` cuts an image to its pixels that aren't fully transparent, pixel for pixel) and Embed or Unembed in place of Fill and Stroke; with an Image Trace object selected, its Preset (choosing another traces again), View, the Image Trace panel and Expand, plus Release in Properties; the five View modes (Tracing Result, with Outlines, Outlines, Outlines with Source Image, Source Image) redraw a trace on screen without tracing again, are saved with it and `imageTrace.setView` sets them, while exports and Expand keep the result; the panel's Advanced section is a header that stays open or closed as it was left (part of #641); Color mode's Palette: Limited, Full Tone (as many colours as the tones need, Less … More), Automatic (flat art with its own colours, else Full Tone; a heuristic) and Document Library (the most used colours of the document's swatches or a swatch library, filled with the swatch colours as they are), part of #641; Advanced › Create: Fills and/or Strokes, where lines up to the Stroke width trace as stroked centre lines (distance transform, thinning, a skeleton graph with spurs pruned, curve fitting; one width per line; without Fills, wider areas become stroked outlines), part of #641), pattern swatches with pattern editing mode, live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror).
 - **Paint and appearance (M3):**
  - **Swatches:** names follow the colour model and are unique; Swatch Options (process/spot, Global, Gray/RGB/HSB/CMYK/Web, live preview); editing a global or spot swatch recolours every linked fill, stroke and text run in one undo step; multi-select and delete with confirmation; New Swatch and New Color Group dialogs (a group from the selected artwork's colours); swatches in colour groups convert, separate and count like any other. The Swatches panel selects ranges and whole groups, has a find field, and drags swatches to reorder, regroup or paint art; Add Used Colors, Select All Unused, Merge, Ungroup and Sort by Kind; a CMYK document keeps applied colours in CMYK. Swatch libraries: nine generated colour libraries and five gradient libraries in a library panel, saved as `.vcswatches`, `.gpl`, swatch exchange (`.ase`) or CSS, and loaded from `.vcswatches`, `.gpl` and `.ase` files (`.ase` both ways: RGB, CMYK, Lab and Gray; global, spot and process; groups) and from color books (`.acb`, read only: the RGB, CMYK or Lab colors of a book such as a Pantone book a user owns, named with its prefix and suffix, spot unless it says process, #831); `swatch.library.copyToUser` copies a loaded library into the User Defined folder without replacing a file, and a file with the same extension and bytes as a User Defined library opens as that library. Tints of global and spot colours ("Name 40%") stay linked and separate as a percentage of their plate. Spot colours can be defined in Lab (Spot Colors options). A built-in [Registration] swatch prints on every plate.
-  - **Colour:** a Color Picker (colour field, H/S/B/R/G/B channel slider, HSB/RGB/Lab/CMYK fields, hex, web-only snapping, out-of-gamut correction); the Color panel follows each colour's own model and Alt-click paints the other proxy; proxies look through groups and show "?" for mixed paint; Invert, Complement, Apply Last Color (`,`) and Apply Last Gradient (`.`) keep the colour model; every paint command feeds the recent colours. The Color Guide has 21 harmony rules, Steps and Variation options and Limit to Library. Adjust Color Balance (its Global mode shifts tints) and Saturate preview live; Edit Colors and Recolor also reach meshes, images and patterns. Recolor Artwork has colour reduction, five recolour methods, presets, Limit to Library, a colour-wheel Edit tab and Edit Color Group; a local Color Themes panel saves five-colour themes. Fill/Stroke chips open swatch and mixer popovers (the Properties panel has the Control bar's Fill and Stroke chips, Stroke link and weight spinner, with nothing selected too), panels have Illustrator's Window menu keys (Align Shift+F7, Transform Shift+F8, Pathfinder Cmd+Shift+F9, Layers F7, Character Cmd+T…; every panel can be given one in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts), and Eyedropper Options pick up and apply chosen attributes (Alt and Shift+Alt, image pixels). An ICC CMYK profile converts straight into the RGB working space (not through sRGB, so a wider space such as Wide Gamut RGB keeps colours sRGB can't hold) with the colour settings' black-point compensation, on the canvas and in RGB exports alike. Fills and strokes can overprint (Attributes panel, Overprint Black options), and CMYK documents blend in inks on screen, in PDF and when flattening. Document Color Mode converts the art, symbols, pattern tiles and swatches through the colour settings: Gray stays Gray, RGB greys separate into four-colour greys and a rich black as Illustrator does, or go on the black plate only with `grays: "black"` (also for `document.open {colorMode}`).
+  - **Colour:** a Color Picker (colour field, H/S/B/R/G/B channel slider, HSB/RGB/Lab/CMYK fields, hex, web-only snapping, out-of-gamut correction); the Color panel shows a selected colour in its own model and, with nothing selected, the new-art defaults in the mode picked last, which it keeps between sessions; Alt-click paints the other proxy; proxies look through groups and show "?" for mixed paint; Invert, Complement, Apply Last Color (`,`) and Apply Last Gradient (`.`) keep the colour model; every paint command feeds the recent colours. The Color Guide has 21 harmony rules, Steps and Variation options and Limit to Library. Adjust Color Balance (its Global mode shifts tints) and Saturate preview live; Edit Colors and Recolor also reach meshes, images and patterns. Recolor Artwork has colour reduction, five recolour methods, presets, Limit to Library, a colour-wheel Edit tab and Edit Color Group; a local Color Themes panel saves five-colour themes. Fill/Stroke chips open swatch and mixer popovers (the Properties panel has the Control bar's Fill and Stroke chips, Stroke link and weight spinner, with nothing selected too), panels have Illustrator's Window menu keys (Align Shift+F7, Transform Shift+F8, Pathfinder Cmd+Shift+F9, Layers F7, Character Cmd+T…; every panel can be given one in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts), and Eyedropper Options pick up and apply chosen attributes (Alt and Shift+Alt, image pixels). An ICC CMYK profile converts straight into the RGB working space (not through sRGB, so a wider space such as Wide Gamut RGB keeps colours sRGB can't hold) with the colour settings' black-point compensation, on the canvas and in RGB exports alike. Fills and strokes can overprint (Attributes panel, Overprint Black options), and CMYK documents blend in inks on screen, in PDF and when flattening. Document Color Mode converts the art, symbols, pattern tiles and swatches through the colour settings: Gray stays Gray, RGB greys separate into four-colour greys and a rich black as Illustrator does, or go on the black plate only with `grays: "black"` (also for `document.open {colorMode}`).
  - **Eyedropper sources (#1251):** ordinary and Shift clicks, Shift+Alt appearance append, raster pixels and gradient-stop sampling can read visible locked/template art and sources outside isolation. Sampling leaves the source and selection intact; Alt reverse still uses editable hits, and hidden art stays excluded. Engine/tool/hit regressions cover the editing boundary, color models and one-step Undo/Redo. The general object/image workflow is described in [public HelpX](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/eyedropper-tool.html); the lock/isolation expectations come from the user report and these regressions, without a new full-parity measurement.
  - **Stroke visibility (#1253):** adding paint to a previously unpainted zero-width stroke restores the existing 1 pt default (`PaintDefaults::default`, `Appearance::set_stroke`), for the selected appearance item, the new-art defaults and Swap Fill/Stroke. Positive widths are kept; recoloring a painted zero-width stroke keeps its explicit zero. A real Eyedropper-to-new-shape sequence reproduces the zero-width inheritance. Five engine regressions cover creation, defaults, targeted items, preserved widths and one-step Undo/Redo (`crates/engine/tests/stroke_visibility.rs`).
  - **Gradients:** lossless, validated gradient params; gradients follow rotate, reflect, shear, non-uniform scale and distortions; the Gradient tool edits the fill or stroke of the active proxy, type included; an interactive on-canvas annotator (move, length/angle, rotate, add/move/delete/duplicate stops, midpoints, a stop popover, Delete and arrow keys). The Gradient panel has the Fill/Stroke proxy, a gradient-swatch dropdown with Save to Swatches, midpoint locations, Alt-drag to copy or swap stops, swatch drops on the ramp and a stop eyedropper; copied appearances and graphic styles place gradients on each target's own bounds; gradient handles snap and honour Constrain Angle. Gradient stops stay linked to global and spot swatches. Freeform gradients (points and lines) are edited on the canvas; radial gradients have an extent ellipse, an aspect handle and an off-centre focal point (SVG `fx`/`fy`, PDF two-point radials). A stroke's gradient runs within, along or across it. Object ▸ Expand turns gradients into N objects or a gradient mesh.
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-13 | minor | Colour: the Color panel keeps the mode picked last between sessions and shows the defaults for new art in it when nothing is selected; a selected colour still shows in its own model (fixes #1675); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Image Trace, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`: shared edges fitted once (#1535), 16 megapixel photos in 0.9 GB (#1546), thin lines (#1563), Ignore Color and two presets (#1574), upright snapping (#1593), stroked centre lines (#1595), corners and Shapes (#1609), Auto Grouping (#1618), Gradients (#1627). Score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Files: Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and `.eps` files copied in a file manager, with the new command `clipboard.importEps` (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479); a multi-artboard `.ai` with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a `.ai` gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542). Rendering: Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536). Fonts: the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux). Localization: The interface is available in Polish (`pl`): menus, panels, dialogs and messages, with one/few/many plurals; AI-drafted, native review pending (#1498) (4,510 rows); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Tools and UI: Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape and the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512); Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539). Correction: the combined Average and Join with its corner or smooth choice was listed as done in [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) and does not exist in the app (`path.join` and `path.average` are separate commands, and Join has no such choice); it is now listed as missing there and in [gap 1](gaps.md); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |