[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions

Wed Oct 27 18:43:08 CEST 2010

Den 2010-10-27 15:46:55 skrev Michael Scherer:
+> Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 à 09:27 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit :
+> > Le 2010-10-27 04:14, Morgan Leijström a écrit :
+> > > Den 2010-10-27 00:52:25 skrev Frank Griffin:
+> > >> Show anything, if it's asked for,
+> > >> whether the source is "disabled" or not.
+> > >
+> > > Maybe the packages could be visibly clearly coded by colour or simple
+> > > symbols wether they are GUI, console, or "other" (libs, language files,
+> > > kernel... or maybe kernel and other system essentials shoulkd have a
+> > > special group)
+> >
+> > Using colours for categories are usually not a good idea due to some
+> > users' "colour blindness". In my opinion, colour categorization should
+> > never be considered.
+>
+> I concur.
+> This is something explain in Gnome HIG
+> ( http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/design-color.html ),
+> and if I remember well my Human Interaction classes, colors may have
+> different cultural connotations and so we should avoid to carrying too
+> much information in it. But usually, the colorblind reason is enough to
+> convince people :)
+
+Good points
+
+It can be done in a clear way without colours; i.e 
+o Bold for GUI
+o Normal for Console
+o Underlined for crucial system parts
+o Italic for "other"
+
+On top of this they may also be color coded in dark colours,
+so they are nice looking for most of us, AND cleraly seen for everyone.
+Example:
+
+o Bold for GUI, dark green
+o Normal for Console, dark blue
+o Underlined for crucial system parts, dark red
+o Italic for "other", black
+
+But i think the colors could be chosen as mixtures so also all different kind 
+of colourblind people see defference in colours.
+Also avoiding 
+
+( What is much harder, and i donṫ think is given much attention, is designing 
+icon themes, logos etc also for colour blindness, but it is mentionned in the 
+link you gave )
+