On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 17:19 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > reopen 257010 > severity 257010 important > submitter 257010 ! > thanks > > 257010 mentioned "The 'none' skin which XMMS displays by default is > virtually unusable for me, and I have reasonably good eyesight." as the > reason for filing the bug and further elaborating about the skin being > low contrast. On 1.2.10+cvs20050809-2 the bug was "fixed" by replacing > the default skin with something white-ish. > > I don't know from which planet you come from, but the human vision > system is more sensible to intensity (luminance) changes than to colour > changes and that's something that the average person can understand > very easily (b/w photographs appear to display larger amounts of detail > than colour ones). > > In the *average* case the eye is able to perceive a *difference* in > luminace of about 2%. This is better approximated a la Ward[0], which > states that the required difference is is much larger at higher > luminances. Since the bluish background has a luminance of about 0.85 > and the text on it has a luminance of 0.70, this means that the average > human can *hardly* read the text this skin, and if they manage it's > only because they have slightly different colours. > > So, if you really intend to fix this bug please go find something > sensible instead of something that looks "cute". > > Marcelo > > PS: Severity upgraded because the new situation is worse than the > original. Submitter changed because the original submitter didn't > appear to care (didn't reopen the bug) > > [0] G. Ward, ``A Contrast-Based Scalefactor for Luminance Display'', > Graphics Gems IV, Ed. by P. S. Heckbert, pp. 415-421, 1994.
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