[LAD] Mouse/knob interaction

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:

> The one the user choose for his desktop. Which is the only real way to
> compensate for visually impaired people (if thats the political correct name).
> I don't like this every-app-chooses-its-own-colors at all. Though I do
> understand that sometimes you need more colors, but that still is different
> from "I define my apps colors on my own because I think that is cool". The
> later results in apps with black text on dark-gray background in an otherwise
> very light desktop-environment => bad. Or in apps with white window background
> while the rest of the desktop is optimized for on-stage-in-the-dark with black
> background and red foreground => bad. Or it results with using two collors to
> "distinguish" which half visually impaired people can't discriminate => bad.

and which system color(s) do you propose to use to indicate:

    * this thing is muted?
    * this thing is rec-enabled?
    * the value indicated here is at the low end of the scale?
    * this object is blinking to alert you to some condition?