On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Nicholas Robinson <npr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
