From: "Ulf Lamping"
| Biot Olivier wrote:
|
| >Maybe we can just append a "v" check mark for correct syntax and
"x" for
| >incorrect syntax? Hopefully GTK+ provides stock items for this.
| >
| >| From: Guy Harris
| >|
| >| On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:34:42AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
| >| > Also when editing the filter string field, the background color
will
| >| > become red or green, depending on the correct syntax of the
filter
| >| > string.
| >|
| >| Do those two colors look like different shades of gray to people
who
| >| have red/green or full color blindness? (Or is the loss of
| >| the hint for
| >| those people not worth the effort of worry about it?)
| >|
| >| (No, I'm not color blind myself, but it might be worth thinking
about
| >| when designing UI features. Note that the GNOME HIG mentions
this:
| >|
| >
|
>http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/usabilityprinciples.h
tml#acc
| >essibility
| >
| >"Accessibility means enabling people with disabilities of some kind
to
| >participate in life's activities: in this case, specifically to use
your
| >software. For example:
| >
| > o Color-blind users may not be able to use your application if
you
| > rely only on color-coding to distinguish different types of
| > information"
| >
| >although, in this case, it's not distinguishing different types of
| >information, it's only providing a hint whose loss probably isn't
fatal
| >- after all, it was arguably not really a hint to people using that
| >feature before the message to which I'm replying arrived, as I
noticed
| >the background coloring but had no clue what it was telling me.)
|
| Hmmm, after thinking about this, I would tend to the following:
|
| Adding additional widgets for indicating syntax (ok/fail) will
reduce
| the screen space for *all* users, so this might not be preferable.
|
| As it's really only a hint (maybe a useful one), I think it's ok to
do
| it the way I implemented it.
|
| It seems to be not quite obivious what the colors are all about, I
added
| tooltips to explain the behaviour and checked that in.
|
| It might be an idea to only turn the color to red if the syntax is
| wrong, and using the default color if syntax is ok.
| This might help color blind people as well (at least a bit).
I remember from some tools that error entries were rendered in a
slanted (italic) variant of the base font. Maybe this is more in-line
with the GNOME HIG?
Regards,
Olivier