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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Error messages and the status bar
From:       Dirk Hennig <Dirk.Hennig () stud ! uni-hannover ! de>
Date:       2000-04-25 6:02:38
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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


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