[ale] gui design is crap

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 17:45:21 EDT 2014


yep! That's on my list.

As soon as I get the system up and 3 VMs loaded and running. Need to bang
some issues with freeIPA and CentOS 6 vs CentOS 7 (FreeIPA 3.3 is not
getting back-ported to CentOS 6.5 - yet )


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:40 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> 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>
> >>>
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> >>> James P. Kinney III
> >>>
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> >> gain
> >>> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
> >> tail.
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> >>> - 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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