Hi Luke ;) On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:42, Luke Benstead <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > A while back we were discussing using blue to represent "information" in > the indicator applets. Mark said it was worth looking in to: > https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg01205.html > > I'm bringing this up again, because with the discussion about a green > "flash" to indicator success of Me Menu updates, it looks to me at least > that green for new messages (information) as well as to represent a > successful action completing seems inconsistent. IMO blue (which seems to be > a pretty globally used colour for conveying information) would be more > suitable. > > I'm not sure if using blue was investigated, the thread seemed to trail off > soon after, did this just get forgotten? > i think during the alphas and betas of lucid we had blue for incoming messages. i'm sure there's one way or the other to explain green as a semantically logical means here, perhaps because of the importance of actual human communication events. Green is also brighter and therefore more discoverable than blue, for example.
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