From kde-look  Tue Apr 25 06:02:38 2000
From: Dirk Hennig <Dirk.Hennig () stud ! uni-hannover ! de>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 06:02:38 +0000
To: kde-look
Subject: Re: Error messages and the status bar
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Espen Sand wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > Dirk Hennig wrote:
> >
> > > This is the way to do it: Make things easier for the normal user by using colors. And for
> > > the small number of color-blind people find an alternative solution. In your example, it
> >
> > 5% to 8% (depending on the study you quote) of the men and 0.5% of the women
> > of the world are born colorblind. Is this really a small number of people?
> >
>
> No it is not a small number (I get surprised every time I read those numbers) so
> this is why one should/must avoid using colors to indicate a state of
> something. Bold/Italic font usage is better.

Why not colors and/or bold/italic? That was what I was talking about: Implement both and then let
the user decide. I think this is to some point the way Linux goes: Giving different solutions to
let the user choose the one he likes most.

Dirk