I spent a good portion of my career designing user interfaces. I was often, and accurately, described by colleagues as a “UI Nazi” for enforcing UI consistency standards. With that background in mind, please permit me a suggestion:
I love the chroma-coding of the text windows. That allows a lot more information to be communicated to the operator without a lot of extra text. The ability to independently set the text foreground and background colors is great for a cataract-riddled geezer like me! I have a hard time seeing black text on a deep magenta background, so being able to set the text color to white is a great aid. The fly in the ointment is when the text color is captured by the LoTW flag. If the station being displayed is on LOTW, the text is always set to the text color designated for that case. If the LoTW text is set to something dark, then only pastel background color-coding works well. Conversely if the LoTW text is set to something light, then only dark background colors work well. The LoTW text color effectively limits you to half of the possible color palette. A possible way around this problem, as well as make the UI more consistent, could be to indicate LoTW participation with some sort of discreet text, such as a “+”, or something like that, in the call field, or elsewhere in the callout line. That is how VE7CC User does it, and it works well. That way there is the flexibility to set background and text colors independently of the text color chosen for LoTW tagging. 73, respectfully, Ted K9IMM
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