From kde-devel  Sun Jun 22 19:39:50 2003
From: Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:39:50 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Hex editor widget
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=105631092717724

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Russell Miller wrote:
> What I said is not exclusive of that.  The use of color I put forth
> provides another layer of information, but it's still possible to
> productively use the
> widget without it.  It should always be kept in mind that a user may not
> be able to see the color for whatever reason, but that's not a good reason
> not to
> use color.  Just use common sense.

yes, but also don't force colors on the user in every case. E.g. if you edit 
an array of long double values, coloring according to (non-)printable ascii 
characters just doesn't make sense.

>> More I expect adults to use this widget, so what about them? ;)
>> 
> My point was that using colors is so natural to humans that children will
> do it as play - if so, then there's no reason that adults shouldn't extend
> that to make the colors do something useful.

Yes, but too many colors usually make things only worse than no colors at all. 
They distract a lot of attention from your real task (similar to animations, 
although those are much worse, of course).

Reinhold
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