On 25 Feb 2010, at 23:50, Walter Prins wrote: > On 25 February 2010 23:32, Shaun McCance <shaunm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It's very simple: do not use color as the only means of >> conveying information. It's even in the HIG: >> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/design-color.html.en#hsv >> >> Fine, but let's not remove the use of colour because some people have > difficulty using it either. (As an aside FWIW, I don't see that colour > blindness is really relevant to the question under discussion.) Well, okay, let's put it this way, then: any GNOME application that relies on icons being present in menus is inherently poorly-designed, because users have always been able to globally turn off menu icons if they wish. Therefore, their presence is not something that any application designer should ever have relied on. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson@xxxxxxx OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
