You may be very right from an engineering point of view, but from an usability point of view you're quite wrong as the end result is quite dark and hard to read:
http://files.1407.org/shot-dark-clock-on-dark-bg.png Rui On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:55:29 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:40:34 +0000 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra > <r...@1407.org> said: > > > As of today, some 10 hours ago old tree, the clock is almost > > unreadable, being dark blue on dark grey is not good... > > the day that it dark blue, is the day the sun is deep purple. this > isn;t a subjective thing - it's provable via rgb values (and lets say > you define dark blue as < 0x80 intensity of the maximum element). > > > Rui > > > > > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:24:19 > > +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:03:52 +0200 "Alex-P. Natsios" > > > <apnats...@gmail.com> said: > > > > > > massively worse than whats there. in the same way its also blurry > > > and unreadable too (using that term the same way). in addition, a > > > serif font where everything else is sans-serif in the theme? > > > that's like walking around in a pink suit with green shoes and > > > expecting to be taken seriously in a business meeting. :) > > > > > > the clock is mimicing a blue version of a "tube clock": > > > > > > http://assets.ilounge.com/images/uploads/nixie-tube-clock-1.jpg > > > http://gadgets.boingboing.net/filesroot/nixie-tube-clock.jpg > > > http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q146/atbglenn/Nixie%20Clock/MyNixieTubeClock.jpg > > > > > > as such it's a pretty good reproducion of such a thing as it was > > > done by hand, and its perfectly readable. people claiming it's not > > > readable are the kind of people who use that word to simply say "i > > > dont like it" - it has nothing to do with readability. you can > > > read is just fine without any problems. > > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > Many people came crying in #e about the new dark digital clock > > > > and those unreasonal scribbles in the numbers back. > > > > > > > > It looks cool and artistic but it is hard to read :( making it > > > > unusable as a module (at least in its digital form). > > > > > > > > After a brief discussion about it cipher (Haris Antonatos) > > > > decided to give it a try and create an alternative set. > > > > > > > > I think of it as pretty neat and matching with the overall feel > > > > please have a look at it as a possibly viable replacement of the > > > > current digital look. > > > > > > > > http://postimage.org/gallery/f4doc1s/ > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > > > Alex-P. Natsios > > > > (a.k.a Drakevr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
