[Bf-funboard] Icons for VSE

[Bol Bib]

oh I fully agree on that bright colors are for important stuff

I just chose it to make clear that you can change it yourself as well,if you don't like it ,and can't distinguish them.



I'm liking the waveform idea as well.

> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:15:32 +0200
> From: magick.crow at gmail.com
> To: bf-funboard at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-funboard] Icons for VSE
> 
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Think changing the color is not really helping things - (or the
> > improvement is so small its splitting hairs).
> >
> > The reason changing color to make it more obvious its different is bad
> > IMHO is that an exceptionally different color (like bright red or
> > yellow) - should be used for an exceptional case - something that
> > should never happen or that will cause failure.
> >
> > The other day for eg, I noticed that you could have a
> > sequence/mask/movie clip sequencer strip that looses its reference to
> > its original data (a scene strip pointing to a NULL scene), This case
> > is exceptional so I made it draw with bright red striped overlay.
> > The same thing could be done fir strips that point to missing files for eg.
> >
> > So IMHO drawing special attention to a regular use case is not a good
> > use of color.
> >
> > Just draw the waveform in all cases and uses will get the idea.
> 
> I fully agree with this. It might be good to find another color than
> blue and green because a lot of color blind people will not see it. At
> least make sure the brightness is different. Turn it to gray (god only
> knows the correct way to do that!) and take a look at it. Keeping the
> colors pastels and the emergency or important colors bright and pure
> is a good idea, IMOHO.
> 
> Can you address my other questions about the FPS, when you get time?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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