[hobbit] Hobbit colors/icons

[Adam Goryachev]

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Kip, D. - GDI/SNB wrote:
> In general, I only want something to blink that requires immediate
> attention.
> And I want things that are in a 'normal' state to be pretty blended into
> the background.

Personally, I find blinking icons to be quite a problem. I usually have
a tab open on my browser on the bb2.html page, and the blinking icons
can cause major problems for the CPU on some devices (especially my Atom
based netbook, or other low power devices). Previously I replaced my
icons with the nb (non-blinking) versions, but just thought I might add
my voice to the discussion on avoiding animated icons for any state...

ie, I monitor all my customer DSL connections, but when some major
supplier goes offline, I end up with a stack of red status on my screen,
so 200 red flashing animated icons causes a lot of CPU consumption (or
so it seems)....

I really like the idea of using slowly changing colours, though perhaps
it should be very bright immediately, fade to 50% over the next x hours,
and then go back to very bright... ie, it should start obvious (your
disk just failed, panic now!) and then if you don't react, then it
probably isn't so important (fades), if it has been bad for a long time,
then it should get brighter/more annoying again. This could be done
without images by using the HTML graphics as seen in the history graphs
(history uptime). Then you just need a config to say start at #xxxxxx
and move to #yyyyyy over xx minutes and then move to #zzzzzz over yy
minutes and then stay there....

BTW, I wonder if HTML flash uses less CPU than animated images....

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev
Website Managers
www.websitemanagers.com.au
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