The discussion is about the Discourse Coloured Text theme component, which allows users to color text in posts. merefield introduced the component, citing it as a simple alternative to the BBCode coloring plugin. The component adds a palette icon to the Composer, allowing users to easily color text by selecting a word or phrase, clicking the palette control, and replacing the # symbols with HTML-compatible color names.
Some users, such as rahim123 and kainos, reported issues with the component, including the color UI button title not applying properly and the button not appearing at all. Moin clarified that the component needs to be installed on the site for the button to appear, and provided a link to the install guide.
merefield fixed some issues, and Moin provided additional guidance on installation. Later, Frully and CocoQuark reported a bug where clicking the palette button without selecting text inserts a translation descriptor instead of default text. merefield fixed this issue and added settings for default colors.
The discussion concludes with nathank praising the component and suggesting it could be combined with another theme component to create a single, super-awesome BBCode component.
Thanks a ton for this useful little component.
It doesn’t seem to be applying the composer.color_ui_button_title properly, both when left at the default or when customized:
NB Same caveats apply as to BBCode: can be used to hide text.
(original discussion here: BBcode color tags in a theme - #2 by merefield)
