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[meg ford <meg387@xxxxxxxxx>]

However, you need to use color only as a secondary indicator of state. This
comes up quite often in icon design in GNOME and the tango icon sets. For
example, I had to redesign the "appointment urgent" icon for symbolic
because it used red as the only indicator of state. It's a difficult
question.

Meg

2012/4/1 Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>

> Another thing that I feel is important is representing the relevance of
>> the tasks visually.
>> Suppose, if a task is very important, it would be highlighted in red, or
>> if its due date is nearing, the task would carry some other visual
>> feature.
>> This would remove the burden of having to read what the task holds.
>> Merely looking at the tasks should signal the user what kind of task it
>> is.
>>
>
> Please, look at  Urgency Color plugin. Wolter has the same idea and he
> implemented as a great plugin.
>
> I proposed in earlier discussion to encode the state (Active, Overdue,
> Closed, Dismissed) as background color. It could be added as an
> alternative/default mode because background color by tags is amazing
> feature and many people including Lionel love it.
>
> Izidor
>
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