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[Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 March 2012 14:58, curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/01/2012 10:18 AM, curtis Hovey wrote:
>> We have a sharing picker that uses colours for each kind of information.
>> This will appear in bugs and branches soon, but everyone can see this on
>> the skeleton view we built for sharing. I do not think colour is
>> appropriate, but maybe other can argue it is needed:
>
> William convincingly argued that the three kinds of sharing policies
> should have colour. Tags are commonly shown with colour background to
> make listings easier to scan. We are showing the 3 kinds of polices are
> tags. The problem is that our tags are presentation is grey.

I can see the value of William's argument but I'm worried about
injecting new meanings into colours that we already use elsewhere. I'm
sure Huw will be happy to help come up with an answer.
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Matthew Revell
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