grey (gray) heat icons are too bold

[Martin Pool]

At the moment bugs with zero heat have four dark grey heat icons next to them. This has a few problems:

 * colorblind users can't tell whether the flames are red or grey (this is actually reported, not speculation)
 * the icons are bold enough that they look like four things, not the absence of four things

If you want to use the common pattern of empty or filled stars (like youtube/itunes/banshee) then the non-filled flame should be much more faint: just an outline and in a paler grey than the body text. Alternatively maybe we could just have no icons for zero heat (but then where would the tooltip be?)

[Deryck Hodge (deryck)]

Thanks for the feedback, Martin. It's much appreciated to get feedback this quickly!

I think we should make the gray flames just an outline. If there's any gray color filled in, it should be extremely light. We've also discussed going with a better flame icon generally speaking. The "affects me too" icons don't look as nice when re-purposed for this usage.

Also, the idea of having no icons instead of lighter/gray ones was heavily discussed. The current usage won out and will remain because it's meant to fill the place when no heat exists and provide nice reference between heat levels when looking at a bug list.

Cheers,
deryck

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Thanks for listening.

> Also, the  idea of having no icons instead of lighter/gray ones was
> heavily discussed.  The current usage won out and will remain because
> it's meant to fill the place when no heat exists and provide nice
> reference between heat levels when looking at a bug list.

I think faint outlined icons would be just fine.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

[Deryck Hodge (deryck)]

New icons are all attached now, grey and colored in. beuno and I are happy with these unless there are strong objections.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Much better IMO. The totally unlit one could get fainter still.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

On 3 February 2010 23:36, Robert Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
> Much better IMO. The totally unlit one could get fainter still.

+1

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>