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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Hex editor widget
From:       "Friedrich W. H.  Kossebau" <Friedrich.W.H () Kossebau ! de>
Date:       2003-06-22 20:14:48
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Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2003 21:39 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> 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).

Solution: make it configurable!

I am making...:)

Friedrich
 
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