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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:21:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Subject: Re: comments on CML 1.1.0
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> > * the colors are hard to see (red/blue on black).  Probably
> >   matter of terminal settings.  I do not have any productive
> >   ideas tho...  Probably to get best experience to as much
> >   people as possible the less colors are used the better.
> >
> >   The 'blue: last visited submenu' is unnecessary.  Especially
> >   because it later turns green...  And the 'red' vs. 'green'
> >   thing.  I guess the green should be used for 'visited entries'
> >   too.  Now the red means like 'Doh.  So I should not have
> >   touched this?'.  Confusing.
> >
> >   In other words: if there are too much colors, they become
> >   a thing that should be separately learned, not a helpful
> >   aid.
> >
> >   All this IMHO ofcourse.  Colors are 'matter of taste' thing
> >   so there probably is not exact Rigth Thing.
>
> You make good points.  In the 1.1.1, blue and yellow/brown will be gone;
> it's just green for everything visited.

I haven't had a chance to take a look, but a heads-up about color
confusion issues. There may be no right thing, but there are plenty of
wrong things. For instance, for about 4% of people (8% of males), RGB
FFFF00 and 00FF00 are nearly indistiguishable, as are FF00FF and 0000FF.

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