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[Eduard Grebe <eduardgrebe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 16:17 -0400, Jim Rorie wrote:

> Could you not use red arrows like the blue ones in the messaging
> indicator?

I was going to ask about those arrows. I found them confusing at first,
because often a horizontal arrow of that shape implies that there is a
rolled up menu under it. Would it not be better to have dots indicating
activity?


> 
> 
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:41 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 20:19 +0100, David Balch wrote:
> > > A further refinement would be to make the "Restart required..." text
> > > in the menu red as well, to tie the meaning of the icon colour to the
> > > menu action...
> > 
> > The current theming system makes that unrealistic.  The application can
> > provide icon names, so that the icons match the theme, but we can't
> > provide text color names.  So if we changed the text color to red it
> > could be placed on something like a red background and be invisible.
> > 
> > 		--Ted
> > 
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