[sldev] Dazzle / Windlight merge?

Tateru Nino tateru.nino at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 00:23:18 PDT 2008


No - you're right. It _is_ blue. As it turns out I have to concentrate 
to tell that. Plus, I keep squinting.

Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> Oops maybe I need to get my memory checked? I tried Dazzle when the 
> first "first look" came out for it, and I remember I liked the 
> graphics rendering but the user interface was painfully bright, 
> distracting, and quite difficult to read, and because of that I hadn't 
> used it since. My comment was based that memory and on reading prior 
> comments that mentioned cyan and blue, so I may have confused the 
> colors. My apologies for the error.
>
>
>  
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Tateru Nino <tateru.nino at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tateru.nino at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Wait a second. It's BLUE?
>
>     I thought it was shades of silver. Maybe I need my eyes checked up
>     again. They've seen better days.
>
>     Dahlia Trimble wrote:
>
>         There is a reason blue text is hard to see: the human retina
>         has far fewer of the blue light sensitive cone cells than for
>         red or green light. Younger people with excellent vision may
>         not have difficulty using the Dazzle UI with the blue text,
>         but older people or those with compromised vision won't find
>         it as easy. Personally I find it quite difficult to read text
>         with the Dazzle UI so I dont use it. I hope when it ships that
>         more thought has gone into the UI design and that changing it
>         to allow for comfortable use is not too difficult. I wouldnt
>         want to go through the process of googling for third party
>         fixes and jumping through hoops every time a new viewer is
>         released just so I can read the text it displays.
>
>         On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Argent Stonecutter
>         <secret.argent at gmail.com <mailto:secret.argent at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:secret.argent at gmail.com
>         <mailto:secret.argent at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>            On 2008-04-08, at 10:00, Tofu Linden wrote:
>
>                In this case, because 1.20 is due out Real Soon Now and has
>                Dazzle,
>                Windlight and lots more. :)
>
>
>            Is the Dazzle bright color scheme going to be mandatory to
>         get 1.20?
>
>            Because I find Dazzle physically painful to use.
>
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