Re: [RFE] Red bikeshed

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Nicholas Robinson <npr@bottlehall.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2008 17:02:02 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 16:45 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> > > In view of the increasing prevalence of users with impaired colour
> > > vision I would like to suggest changing the boot sequence to use blue
> > > to indicate failure to start a service.
> > >
> > > It would of course require testing all current initscripts to ensure
> > > they work correctly with the new success/failure/action functions from
> > > /etc/init.d/functions ...
> > >
> > > Any takers for testing?
> >
> > How about blinking text? It's horrible and thus is suitable for alarms.
> >
> > poc
>
> The difference between OK and FAILED is pretty conclusive. Not only the
> meanings, but the longer FAILED stands out from the OKs even across a room.
> Colour-coding and blinking are only syntactic sugar.
>
> My mother was completely unable to tell the difference between red and green
> and I recall as a very small child we were driving along when I realised with
> horror that this meant she couldn't tell stop from go at traffic lights! I
> feared an imminent crash, but she patiently explained that she knew that if
> the top light was on it meant stop and the bottom one... You get my drift: we
> impaired people have other ways than just colour for working out which way is
> up.
>
> Nick
>

I am going to make them black on black so I don't have to read them.

Max

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