No, currently the Custom Palette does not have an option to allow you to specify the gradient.
That said, if you come up with a palette that you want to use and think looks nice, I can look at adding it to a future version of Keyboard Maestro and that can include a gradient.
It's possible I could add the ability to set a gradient for the background for the custom palette option in the future.
Also, I only use palettes with icons so the background color is all I'm interested in. For understanding, what are the text and highlighted text elements?
Lastly, what's I'm playing with here is to get the palette color to match the Mojave dark mode Finder window frames to see it that works.
I like this ability to apply a gradient to any color.
Also, if it is not too hard... can we have an option to have text "flush left" without icon (instead of just centered text)?
Under the Giv'em a inch..." banner would/have you considered radial menus? I've found a simple four finger flick up or down gesture on a trackpad (allowed for with BetterTouchTool) to trigger a palette to appear under the cursor to be an excellent experience. For example:
A next level of refinement could be altering the "Palette" / Menu of options to assume a more aesthetic and efficient arrangement. Here are some designs and links for inspiration.
Radial menus are on my radar (sorry, really pad pun). I have no current plans to implement them, but it has been something I have looked at occasionally. I have not really found a good way for them to fit within Keyboard Maestro - really they would seem to work best in a case where you have a hierarchical structure of actions you want to perform, each with level with around eight options, so that you can start the selection, then go in a direction to get to the next level, then fan out from there.
That does not seem like a natural fit for Keyboard Maestro - it is not that you could not construct such a hierarchy, but it wouldn't fall naturally out of normal macro creation.
Interesting direction to look from inside out. From macro creation to UI creates a UI dependency. Looking from outside in, from task to tool allows more UI flexibility and options.
Given the present “locate palette under cursor” option, would it take much to add a locate palettes with a x,y offset from cursor option? This would allow a fixed relationship of palette to cursor alleviating the disorientating spacial reshuffling that adding or deleting macros to a grid currently creates.
If that seems too chaotic, another option could be a few fixed grid options to plug individual palettes into.
Also, instead of a second ring, there could simply be one ring design of however many slots that keeps getting called when any item on the current ring is selected.
Ring-menu is not available in the US app store. I downloaded QS and the QS radial menu plugin but can't get it to open. It's from '07 and may not be working. Have you had success with it?
I'd amend what you said to "With a certain coding understanding, creativity and HTML, you can customize it to your needs." Yes I agree. Thank you for putting the tools within reach. Excellent!!!
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