[LAD] A GUI request

2022-06-05 Thread Will Godfrey
As a {cough} sprightly 73 year old I'm starting to have sight difficulties - especially dark colours and night vision. With the current trend of dark GUI shades this presents me with a problem when using new software. Some, but not all of these programs do provide alternatives. However they default

Re: [LAD] A GUI request

2022-06-06 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Sun, 5 Jun 2022 21:49:13 +0100, Will Godfrey a écrit : > Therefore please consider either defaulting to a lighter layout, or > alternatively, at first time start give a choice using a system > alert/choice window. If you don't provide a lighter option, maybe > consider doing so. > Personally,

Re: [LAD] A GUI request

2022-06-06 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jun 05, 2022 at 09:49:13PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > As a {cough} sprightly 73 year old I'm starting to have sight difficulties - > especially dark colours and night vision. With the current trend of dark GUI > shades this presents me with a problem when using new software. Some, but no

Re: [LAD] A GUI request

2022-06-06 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 00:06:08 +0200 Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Simple fact is that all popular GUI toolsets are targeted to developing > 'office' > or 'social' type of applications and completely fail to address the needs for > anything outside that limited scope. There is much more to this than jus

Re: [LAD] A GUI request

2022-06-07 Thread John Rigg
On Sun, Jun 05, 2022 at 09:49:13PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > Therefore please consider either defaulting to a lighter layout, or > alternatively, at first time start give a choice using a system alert/choice > window. If you don't provide a lighter option, maybe consider doing so. Options are g

Re: [LAD] A GUI request

2022-06-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 08:49:36AM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > So far I thought the differences are all about much higher requirements > on readability at a glance and stableness. Not just 'at a glance' but also in exceptional circumstances and under stress. For example imagine your aircraft i

Re: [LAD] A GUI request

2022-06-07 Thread Will Godfrey
On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 13:40:13 +0200 Fons Adriaensen wrote: >* Avoiding information overload in emergency conditions. >Pilots are trained to prioritise and divide their tasks, >but this can still be a problem, and a lot of research >is done to avoid it. > >Ciao, > This is the biggie for me - in gene

Re: [LAD] A GUI request

2022-06-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > In audio software, the classic example being Phasex which seems to > get just about everything wrong :( :-) A good example of the 'identical items arranged in a line' which I mentioned before. It's by no means the only one which ge