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>I was talking about the Away color being applied to buddies who sign on
>while Away (think about it -- it can happen). The buddy still shows the
>green power badge, and doesn't go red until the "just logged on" status
>evaporates.
I�ve got a feeling that we have the same opinion here... :)
> > I don�t really have a perfect solution, but I was thinking of
>> something along the line of having as less colors as possible.
>
>I'm proposing five. Six if you include the background color. Seven if you
>count transparent as a color.
>
I think that the colors prefpane could be arranged in this order, to
be even easier:
- Available
- Busy
- Away
- Offline
- Background
Eventually:
- Transparent
- Free for chat
Available would either include "Fee for Chat" or it would be an extra one.
Busy would include Occupied, AFK and DnD
Away would include N/A and Idle
Offline would include Invissible (Would that be the right one?)
What do you think? Arranging them in that order (in the UI) would
(IMHO) make it even more clear as to what every item means and reduce
their total count.
> > - The first would be to have no color at all (maybe this could be a
>> preference just where the color is, something like "dont use colors
>> at all"), so only the icons transport the message.
>
>Great. Set all the colors to the same color.
I also don�t really think that this would be an important option, I
just thought that that would be a very quick way to do this. I�l send
you a mockup how I thought this could be done via private e-mail.
> > - The second is that default would be some sort of Aqua shades,
>[...]
>(Problem with my own
> > attempts to find such colors was, that the small letters didn�t
> > provide enough contrast to the white background.)
>
>Really? Out of the corner of my eye, I seem to be able to detect red vs.
>green better than #FF8080 vs. #FF9090.
Thats exactly what I meant. :)
> > - Right now I use a color variant that hase the online group in
>> black, the occcupied group in light red, and the away/na group in
>> even lighter red, so that light that the red doesn�t distract.
>
>That's why I made them a preference, because they're just that: a matter of
>preference. No matter how much time I spent (actually about 30 secs, if
>that) scintifically choosing the colors based off of focus groups and user
>interface studies, users aren't going to like the colors I came up with.
>Only one person is likely to like the colors I picked: me.
While I fully agree with you that it would be *extremely* difficult
to guess everybody's preference on this subject, I also know that I,
as a user, are extremely lazy (I hope that's the word). So for myself
I need a really good reason to go into the preferences and find good
color combinations. So perhaps a survey around this list could be a
start to suggest something that works. I think it hasen�t got to be
great, or even good, but if it works only very few people have to go
there and change anything.
:) Well.. I think I got carried away a bit on this. :) Please excuse that. :)
>Nor does it here. Red. Green. Blue. The primary colors of additive
>light. That's all it means.
Uhm, are there actually any colors out there that would transport
some meaning? Here in Germany for example Yellow is used for warning
signs mostly. (While I also know that green shouldn�t be ever used in
muslemian countries. (Please correct me if I�m wrong!)
Perhaps this whole color thing needs to be decided by the localizers
to avoid this sort of problems?
What do you and all the others think?
> > - Another aproach would be to only use colors to code when someone
>> changes status. So for examle green for signing on (would be
>> meaningfull here) and red for signing off.
>
>Like the power badges, only the entire row that color? Possible, but
>requires two additional colors to be chosen.
Thats true. And bad. I would then vote for not having this possibility.
Thanks a lot for listening,
cu Martin
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