From: "Ulf Lamping"
| Biot Olivier wrote: | | >Maybe we can just append a "v" check mark for correct syntax and "x" for | >incorrect syntax? Hopefully GTK+ provides stock items for this. | > | >| From: Guy Harris | >| | >| On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:34:42AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote: | >| > Also when editing the filter string field, the background color will | >| > become red or green, depending on the correct syntax of the filter | >| > string. | >| | >| Do those two colors look like different shades of gray to people who | >| have red/green or full color blindness? (Or is the loss of | >| the hint for | >| those people not worth the effort of worry about it?) | >| | >| (No, I'm not color blind myself, but it might be worth thinking about | >| when designing UI features. Note that the GNOME HIG mentions this: | >| | > | >http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/usabilityprinciples.h tml#acc | >essibility | > | >"Accessibility means enabling people with disabilities of some kind to | >participate in life's activities: in this case, specifically to use your | >software. For example: | > | > o Color-blind users may not be able to use your application if you | > rely only on color-coding to distinguish different types of | > information" | > | >although, in this case, it's not distinguishing different types of | >information, it's only providing a hint whose loss probably isn't fatal | >- after all, it was arguably not really a hint to people using that | >feature before the message to which I'm replying arrived, as I noticed | >the background coloring but had no clue what it was telling me.) | | Hmmm, after thinking about this, I would tend to the following: | | Adding additional widgets for indicating syntax (ok/fail) will reduce | the screen space for *all* users, so this might not be preferable. | | As it's really only a hint (maybe a useful one), I think it's ok to do | it the way I implemented it. | | It seems to be not quite obivious what the colors are all about, I added | tooltips to explain the behaviour and checked that in. | | It might be an idea to only turn the color to red if the syntax is | wrong, and using the default color if syntax is ok. | This might help color blind people as well (at least a bit). I remember from some tools that error entries were rendered in a slanted (italic) variant of the base font. Maybe this is more in-line with the GNOME HIG? Regards, Olivier _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
