[ale] gui design is crap

[Evan Banyash]

Is it a QT or GTK frontend? If so, it could just be your theme. There are
high contrast accessibility themes if that's what you need.


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm setting up Ovirt, the VMWare killer from RedHat, and they have done
> what many other places have done, designed a UI where the difference
> between active tab and others is so damn subtle as to be nearly invisible.
> The difference is the text changes from black to a dark blue-gray and a
> shadow disappears. A common thing that does work is the make the active tab
> font BOLD but I gus that didn't make the cut.
>
> This ranks up there with making CD/DVD eject button the same black color as
> the rest of the faceplate.
>
> Yes. Some 14 year old kid can see it but in 30 years those eyes will be
> fading as well.
>
> </rant>
>
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> James P. Kinney III
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