Comment 2 for bug 1234300

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Gary Poster (gary) wrote : Re: [Bug 1234300] [NEW] GUI green/red color usage is not good for color blind

Sounds like a good simple approach, thank you.

Gary

> On Oct 7, 2013, at 5:53 AM, Luca Paulina <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> This is most probably because the 3 colours are all very similar in colour,
> we'll work on tweaking the colours to solve this issue.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Gary Poster <email address hidden>wrote:
>
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> In service blocks and the inspector we use green to signify health and
>> red to signify errors. In the inspector's unit break-down, we use
>> shapes nicely to distinguish between the two (circle vs triangle) but
>> the status bar has no such help.
>>
>> Because we have the unit break-down, I think this is not urgent, but it
>> would be nice if the status bar could also be read by green/red color
>> blind users. Perhaps we could incorporate the shapes into the status
>> bar?
>>
>> ** Affects: juju-gui
>> Importance: Low
>> Assignee: Luca Paulina (lucapaulina)
>> Status: Triaged
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234300
>>
>> Title:
>> GUI green/red color usage is not good for color blind
>>
>> Status in Juju Graphical Interface:
>> Triaged
>>
>> Bug description:
>> In service blocks and the inspector we use green to signify health and
>> red to signify errors. In the inspector's unit break-down, we use
>> shapes nicely to distinguish between the two (circle vs triangle) but
>> the status bar has no such help.
>>
>> Because we have the unit break-down, I think this is not urgent, but
>> it would be nice if the status bar could also be read by green/red
>> color blind users. Perhaps we could incorporate the shapes into the
>> status bar?
>>
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> Title:
> GUI green/red color usage is not good for color blind
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