Jeff, mk is actually on to something. I grew up with a dad who was a research and development chemist. He specialized in... color. As a conseqence I heard a lot about it and got roped into doing a couple science fairs relating to the subject of color. As ironic as it is, I am an unusual individual as I quite literally do not understand the concept of "favorite color" I have no preference for any one over the other, which is why (as I stated earlier) really don't care about aesthetics at all. Apparently this is uncommon and puts me in a small statistical minority. Google "psychology of color" or "color psychology" to get an idea of how color usage affects people. From what the world has to say about it, it's important enough to make a difference. Although from what I understand there is a difference in the way colors are used in an interactive, changing interface as opposed to a static wall or business card or some such thing.
On 06/10/2014 02:31 PM, mk wrote: > Jeff, > > Red, orange, brown are not suitable colors for desktop environment. I suspect > you used orange as a menu highlight to symbolically indicate that Bodhi is an > ubuntu derivative. > > Not a good choice. Take it out. Mark Shuttleworth is an artistic illiterate. > > Think of this: why matadors use red (orange is basically red a bit of yellow > added) to excite bulls? Why red is used to mark whorehouses? These colors are > extremely disturbing psychologically speaking. > > Here is a link on colors, explaining some basic things with examples. > > http://www.hungarianambiance.com/2009/06/magic-of-simultaneous-contrast.html > > > > > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 2:09:53 PM, Yomi Ogunwumi <abyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't worry too much about the Settings Panel horror, because at some > point in the future this will be fixed, apparently. ¹ > > I also don't play around with Settings too much because I get lost. > > 1 : https://phab.enlightenment.org/T553 > -*Yomi* > > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:34 AM, William <wjck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> First a disclaimer: I Love Enlightenment and use it as my main >> workstation OS. While I only started using it full-time last year, I >> have been following it's development since 1997. As things stand, I >> would not want to use another system. >> >> The ugly and awful truth from my perspective: yes, Enlightenment is >> ugly. However, ugly is misinterpreted as awful. Compounding the problem >> is that Enlightenment is extraordinarily complex. I would venture to >> guess that easily 99% of people who try Enlightenment give up on it >> after less than two-hours. As all distros\WMs\DEs have a strong tendency >> to troll one another to different degrees, users in all groups >> universally troll against Enlightenment. I see it almost everyday. >> >> What is the difference with me? I could not possibly care less about the >> aesthetics of a user interface. It is what I can do with it that counts >> - how I can arrange my workflow. In that respect, Enlightenment is the >> most powerful environment available. My most favorite features is the >> ability to tell one of my displays to be a tiling WM. It is not merely >> the ability but the incredibly well thought out way it is designed. Of >> course, if you are a new user, you may never know the functionality >> exists since one must (comparatively) dig through a mountain of settings >> to find it. There are numerous other interface features to Enlightenment >> that I love, and when made to work together simply cannot be found >> anywhere else - not even close. But the settings are another barrier to >> entry. If you are not immediately turned off by Enlightenment's looks, >> browsing through the settings will send most running. When everything is >> approached at once through the settings panel, for many it is like >> trying to chisel a tunnel through the moon with a hammer. Some of the >> best settings are labeled in non-intuitive ways, and so are never >> explored. To this day, there are settings that even I don't know what >> they do. I fully appreciate why that may not be apparent to developers >> and long time users. >> >> I have long played with the thought that perhaps there should be a >> secondary, not so super-scary version of Enlightenment for "regular >> Linux users". This would have to have a default interface with highly >> refined aesthetics and functional defaults. It would also have to >> utterly gut the settings panel, of... most things. Basically a stupid >> version of Enlightenment. I think it could actually be popular, but I do >> not feel it is my place to champion such an idea. Further, it would >> double the complexity of development, and I want to make sure *MY* ugly, >> super-complicated, ultra-functional version of Enlightenment continues >> to exist. I LOVE it the way it is. So I suppose I am actually against >> the idea. Just the other day, I was on the elementary OS (polar opposite >> of Enlightenment) Google+ board where I am very active since that's the >> distro I put on other peoples computers. We were discussing the upcoming >> tiling windows manager plugin for elementary OS. I mentioned that I use >> Bodhi and briefly discussed its tiling feature. Of course, the hate >> descended. My next to the last post on the matter reads as follows and I >> think is most poignant: >> >> >> "This is true. However, I care absolutely nothing about aesthetics. ( I >> was desensitized after working with mainframes a long time ago) So in my >> case, ugliness does not interfere with my user experience as it does >> with others, and I don't mind extreme configuration. If elementary OS >> was extremely ugly but otherwise had the interface features I like about >> it, I would still love it just as much. Although I would not recommend >> it, let only install it on other peoples computers as I otherwise do. >> Much the same, I never ever recommend Bodhi or Enlightenment in general >> to anyone under any circumstances." >> >> You asked, >> >> William >> >> On 06/10/2014 09:38 AM, Jeff Hoogland wrote: >>> Is basically the feedback I get from non-E users most times. Thoughts on >>> this? >>> >>> Recent example -> >>> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/27qt7k/bodhi_linux_300_rc1_released_ubuntu_1404_base/ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions >> Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems >> Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. 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