[ale] gui design is crap

[JD]

Look for a template or CSS to correct the issue and provide the project with a
patch - "old guy" patch.

On 09/05/2014 04:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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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