[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen

[Rafal Roginela]

HI,

 

Don't want to seem like I'm butting in but how bout road sign shapes
they have colors and shapes that most people know meaning of: stop sign
is read and has the familiar octagon shape, triangle for caution is
usually orange, and a circle for green might be a good way to do it.
Just my 2 cents. Love the hobbit no matter what the icons it is the
best!!

 

Thank You

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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:20 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
happen

 

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.

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?

Also I've been kind of curious as to why the default green <24h icon is
a triclops...

Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>
wrote:

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.

 

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.

 

=G=

 

From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:08 AM


To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
happen

 

I'm sorry...from a distance?



It's a computer screen, not a TV.

You can make your own custom smilies anyways.  Just overwrite the
images.

Josh Luthman
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Direct: 937-552-2343
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Suite 1337
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--- Henry Spencer

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org>
wrote:

On Saturday 02 August 2008, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> My wife is a professional web/graphic designer.
>
> I'll ask her to play around with creating another set of icons,
although
> Steve's should be acceptable to the PHB types.
>
> I do have to say that no one here has grumbled at me about the name or
> the iconss.

I received some remarks from some of my collegaes.  4 of them have color
blindness and it's very dificult to see the differences between the
smileys
from a distance.


Stef


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