On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 19:20 -0400, max bianco wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Nicholas Robinson <npr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > > I am going to make them black on black so I don't have to read them. Anti-peril boot sequence?? Heck, I LIKE that! Great idea. :) Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
