# Segment Editor: reduce the number of mouse clicks to set basic colour for segment

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-reduce-the-number-of-mouse-clicks-to-set-basic-colour-for-segment/20236>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** segmentation, color, gui\
**Created:** [October 19, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-reduce-the-number-of-mouse-clicks-to-set-basic-colour-for-segment/20236 "2021-10-19T11:50:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-reduce-the-number-of-mouse-clicks-to-set-basic-colour-for-segment/20236/3 "2021-10-20T04:19:19Z")

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You actually don’t need to switch to Basic tab, so it “just” takes 5 clicks to change color. Of course 5 would be still more than the usual 3 clicks, but you can reduce the required number of clicks to 3 by creating a json file that contains all the segment names and colors that you use frequently, or further reduce it to 0 clicks by creating a segmentation node with empty segments that you can use as a template for each new segmentation.

If you just want to always use the “Basic” color picker then you can change that in Application settings → Application startup script → add `ctk.ctkColorDialog().setDefaultTab(0)` to the end of the displayed startup script file.

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> click **Color** in the (badly named) _Slicer_ dialogue box;

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> content of the current (badly named) _Slicer_ dialogue box

Windows uses the application name as title in all dialog boxes that have no specific title - not just in Slicer, but in all other applications, too.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/5/6/566a7e73a7b2961698721aa0a8f1e8b4f2198954.png)

Maybe adding a bit more specific title (“Terminology”?) could be useful, but the current behavior is not faulty. Therefore I don’t feel that it is justified bringing it up twice like it was some serious mistake and doing so somewhat dulls the edge of your other comments.

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