<div dir="ltr">I've always had it easy seeing colors but I am near sighted. I can see the Hobbit display on a projector that is a good ~18 feet wide, reading the text as well. Colors were easier to read so it must be Galen's idea of "Macular Degeneration" or some sort of color blindness.<br>
<br>Maybe we should follow the idea of doing different symbols. A green plus, red X, yellow circle for <24h and maybe just animate them for anything >24h?<br><br>Also I've been kind of curious as to why the default green <24h icon is a triclops...<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Galen Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Galen.Johnson@sas.com">Galen.Johnson@sas.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If you've ever been to a real NOC, you'll notice that they
usually have a large set of displays that are set up around the room for
viewing problems at a glance. I can understand where they would be viewing from
a distance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ideally, to aid color blind folks (I work with a guy that has
Macular Degeneration and requires a special application that reverses his video)
and those that are visually impaired, the icon set should have different shapes
associated with them as well. I'd have to go look but I think Steve Aiello's
set on The Shire are this way.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">=G=</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Josh Luthman
[mailto:<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 11, 2008 10:08 AM<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name
change will happen</div></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">I'm sorry...from a distance?</p><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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It's a computer screen, not a TV.<br>
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You can make your own custom smilies anyways. Just overwrite the images.<br>
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Josh Luthman<br>
Office: 937-552-2340<br>
Direct: 937-552-2343<br>
1100 Wayne St<br>
Suite 1337<br>
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Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.<br>
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<p>On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Stef Coene <<a href="mailto:stef.coene@docum.org" target="_blank">stef.coene@docum.org</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p>On Saturday 02 August 2008, Thomas Leavitt wrote:<br>
> My wife is a professional web/graphic designer.<br>
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> I'll ask her to play around with creating another set of icons, although<br>
> Steve's should be acceptable to the PHB types.<br>
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> I do have to say that no one here has grumbled at me about the name or<br>
> the iconss.</p>
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<p>I received some remarks from some of my collegaes. 4
of them have color<br>
blindness and it's very dificult to see the differences between the smileys<br>
from a distance.<br>
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Stef</span></p>
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