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Bug 62804

Summary:

Red X Icons are harder to see in 3.0

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Randy Hudson <hudsonr>

Component:

Assignee:

Andrée Proulx <aiproulx>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, dirk_baeumer, for.work.things, jmockler, thatnitind

Version:

3.0

Keywords:

accessibility

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Comparison	none

Description Randy Hudson

2004-05-18 17:04:20 EDT

The Red X overlay icons are not red enough. Also, the X itself is only 3x3 
pixels.  It used to be twice as large at 5x5 pixels. When looking at a large 
list of packages, the user must quickly be able to find out which package(s) 
has a class containing an error.  This is much harder in 3.0 than in 2.1.

I am red-green colorblind, so having better contrast and a larger X make it 10 
times easier to spot.

Comment 1 Randy Hudson

2004-05-18 17:05:12 EDT

Created attachment 10806 [details]
Comparison

The attachment shows 2.1 and 3.0 decorations. BTW, I like the old package icon
better too.

Comment 2 Dirk Baeumer

2004-05-19 03:51:51 EDT

Although I am not colorblind seeing the two adornments side by side clearly 
shows that the error tick was easier discernible in 2.1.

Comment 3 Randy Hudson

2004-06-17 13:09:01 EDT

Erich, any news on this?

Comment 4 Randy Hudson

2004-06-17 13:31:02 EDT

As of RC2:
org.eclipse.team.ui is still using the easier-to-see 2.1 icon.
org.eclipse.junit is using a darker version of the new 3.0 icon.

The following plug-ins are using the new faded icon:
org.eclipse.jdt.ui
org.eclipse.update.ui
org.eclipse.ant.ui
org.eclipse.debug.ui
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2008-08-13 06:46:37 EDT

No plans to change this.