On Friday 25 April 2008 17:02:02 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 16:45 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > > In view of the increasing prevalence of users with impaired colour > > vision I would like to suggest changing the boot sequence to use blue > > to indicate failure to start a service. > > > > It would of course require testing all current initscripts to ensure > > they work correctly with the new success/failure/action functions from > > /etc/init.d/functions ... > > > > Any takers for testing? > > How about blinking text? It's horrible and thus is suitable for alarms. > > poc The difference between OK and FAILED is pretty conclusive. Not only the meanings, but the longer FAILED stands out from the OKs even across a room. Colour-coding and blinking are only syntactic sugar. My mother was completely unable to tell the difference between red and green and I recall as a very small child we were driving along when I realised with horror that this meant she couldn't tell stop from go at traffic lights! I feared an imminent crash, but she patiently explained that she knew that if the top light was on it meant stop and the bottom one... You get my drift: we impaired people have other ways than just colour for working out which way is up. Nick -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
