For what it's worth: I kinda like the new color scheme and the possibility to 
tailor the colors to my own preferences (I'm red/green color blind). With an 
option to turn colors off/on, I'd be one happy customer. Thanks for the good 
work of the development team!

OH6VDA Tom

> 26. sep. 2018 kl. 18:21 skrev Mike <biounit.m...@gmail.com>:
> 
> Thanks for the feedback everyone! I appreciate it and look forward to future 
> improvements.
> 
> Mike - N5INP
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:55 AM Joe Taylor <j...@princeton.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone who commented on the color-highlighting of decoded 
>> messages in WSJT-X 2.0-rc1 and -rc2.  We appreciate hearing all the 
>> sentiments expressed: they ranged from "keep it simple" and "better as 
>> it was" to "more options are needed".
>> 
>> As most subscribers here know, in general we in the WSJT Development 
>> Group devote our greatest efforts toward innovations in protocol design: 
>> source encoding, error-control coding, modulation/demodulation schemes, 
>> related DSP algorithms, and the like.  The underlying "guts" that make 
>> these weak-signal modes work.  Surely our contributions to Amateur Radio 
>> in these areas are among our most important.
>> 
>> We also try to make the finished product -- in this case WSJT-X -- 
>> convenient and enjoyable for users.  However, going too far in this 
>> direction requires a lot of time... and it's often impossible to satisfy 
>> everyone.  We have therefore shied away (for example) from building 
>> full-featured logging facilities into WSJT-X.  Excellent programs with 
>> such facilities already exist.
>> 
>> The scheme and logic used for color highlighting in WSJT-X 2.0-rc1 and 
>> -rc2 was intended as exploratory, by no means final.  Excellent 
>> "alerting" facilities already exist (for Windows) in JTAlert.  If we 
>> keep anything like the color highlighting that's now there, we'll 
>> certainly add some switches so you can back it off or disable unwanted 
>> parts.  We'll also consider the possibility that this is a case of "less 
>> is more", especially when it's arguably redundant.
>> 
>>         -- 73, Joe, K1JT
>> 
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