[ale] gui design is crap

[Jim Kinney]

It's web. Beats the VMWare gui (runs only on winders) but is too subtle for
my tastes.


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Evan Banyash <evan at banyash.com> wrote:

> 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>
> >
> > --
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> >
> > Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
> gain
> > at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
> tail.
> > It won't fatten the dog.
> > - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
> >
> >
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James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain


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