However, you need to use color only as a secondary indicator of state. This comes up quite often in icon design in GNOME and the tango icon sets. For example, I had to redesign the "appointment urgent" icon for symbolic because it used red as the only indicator of state. It's a difficult question.
Meg 2012/4/1 Izidor Matušov <[email protected]> > Another thing that I feel is important is representing the relevance of >> the tasks visually. >> Suppose, if a task is very important, it would be highlighted in red, or >> if its due date is nearing, the task would carry some other visual >> feature. >> This would remove the burden of having to read what the task holds. >> Merely looking at the tasks should signal the user what kind of task it >> is. >> > > Please, look at Urgency Color plugin. Wolter has the same idea and he > implemented as a great plugin. > > I proposed in earlier discussion to encode the state (Active, Overdue, > Closed, Dismissed) as background color. It could be added as an > alternative/default mode because background color by tags is amazing > feature and many people including Lionel love it. > > Izidor > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~gtg-**contributors<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-contributors> > Post to : > gtg-contributors@lists.**launchpad.net<[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~gtg-**contributors<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-contributors> > More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >
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