On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:42:32 +0000 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[email protected]> said:
> 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 i'm reading it incredibly easily. in fact not even reading - just glancing at it and i can read the time just fine. > Rui > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:55:29 +0900 > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:40:34 +0000 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra > > <[email protected]> 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) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:03:52 +0200 "Alex-P. Natsios" > > > > <[email protected]> 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) > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
