Group color, only display identical colors once

[Yery]

Suppose i have the following Categories and Subcategories
Category: Food: Subcategory: Nuts
Category: Trees: Subcategory: Nut trees

Now it is possible (and makes sense) to assign a single colour to both subcategory Nuts and Nut trees. Some papers however, will naturally be categorized in both groups. In such instances, Jabref currently displays twice the colour in the main table (in the column group color). Would it be possible to only display the unique colours?

I hope this (rather contrived) example is clear. Please let me know if not!

[WangAooa]

Hi, I'd like to contribute to this issue.

[k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27]

I were not intending to contribute to this issue. I am just wondering if it makes sense to have some kind of sort based on color as distinct() and similar solutions are not stable?

[LuckyOne09]

I am wondering the meaning of this issue because I think it is reasonable to display multiple colors if this paper belongs to multiple subgroups. If you want to display only one color, how to choose the color from multiple groups it is in?

[k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27]

If I understand @Yery correctly multiple different colors should be displayed, as long as they are distinct?

[Yery]

@k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27
Thanks, yes, that is what I meant. It is of course good to see different colours, the issue is on merging multiple identical colours.

[LuckyOne09]

@k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27 @Yery Thanks for your explanations, but since it is possible that users give identical colors to two groups which are not relevant, I think it is troublesome to distinguish which identical colors should be merged and which should not.

[Yery]

To me it simply doesn't make sense to have two or three times the same colour, and these should always be merged, otherwise the user should use different colours. The example I gave illustrates a situation where a user would want to chose the same colour (and would like to have them merged). For my user case, I would use this feature a lot.

[WangAooa]

So, can I combine all colors together and provide a new color if it has multiple colors? I'm a little confused about the above discussion.

[Siedlerchr]

I think the main point is that we are talking about subgroups

[Yery]

Sorry this is confusing, but this issue is just about merging identical colours (so not displaying them twice, which looks silly), so:

red | red = red
red | green | blue = red | green | blue
red | green | red = red | green