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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/06/10 10:42, James Putt wrote:
> I agree colour is significant. I was considering that the top menu by
> convention is monochromatic with certain colours having a particular
> meaning, and how having different icons in the drop down menu to the
> icons representing the menu would play out.

In order to avoid the panel going gaudy, and to *keep* colour
significant, we should only use colour for "off-nominal and exceptional"
situations. So we need to think carefully about whether being offline is
an "alert" condition or not. I don't really think it is.

Mark

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