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Ticket #1989 (closed enhancement: fixed)
blue highlight needs more contrast to be readable in sunlight
| Reported by: | hjr | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | XCSoar 6.3 |
| Component: | User Interface | Version: | 6.3 |
| Keywords: | map item list | Cc: | ramy |
Description
I am using the brightest display available (Dell Streak) which I found to be more than acceptable in sunlight, except when trying to read text with the blue highlight, in particular the new map item list. I need to remove my sunglasses to be able to barely read the black fonts over the blue highlight (no problem when trying it at home though, the issue seem to be with sunlight) . Once selecting an item it changes to a much better yellow highlight. Any chance to change it to a lighter highlight such as the yellow one, or is it just me that find the blue problematic?
Change History
comment:2 Changed 14 months ago by 170
I find trouble even without sunglasses and would welcome this change.
comment:3 Changed 14 months ago by Jantar
I agree, this is a problem.
But I'm not really convinced that another "colour" is the correct answer.
Also remember - there are other type of devices that XC-soar can target, some of which have B/W screens.
My suggestion to this problem is to have a different way to signal "selected" and "focused".
What if "selected" is just reversed background-colour and reversed text-colour?
That might work in lists as well as for infoboxes, I guess.
Another way might be to have whatever item is selected as "flashing"?
comment:4 Changed 14 months ago by ramy
Flashing may be distracting. I recommend either reverse background as you suggested, or light grey which should work also on B/W screens.
When playing with it I noticed that in some situations the background is a non problematic light blue, while in others it is darker blue, so perhaps the fix is simply to use the light blue consistently.
comment:5 Changed 14 months ago by Jantar
That "light blue" is used on infoboxes, when selected.
This is no good if infoboxes are black with white text. (Inverse InfoBoxes? = ON)
A selected infobox is using white text on light blue background - Not good at all.
comment:6 Changed 13 months ago by Turbo
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
- Milestone changed from XCSoar 6.3 to XCSoar 6.4
comment:7 Changed 13 months ago by davida
I recommend leaving the background bright (whitish, as in non-selected) on the selected item, but with a dark colored frame around it. That way you don't have issues with selecting a proper color.
Remember that blue colors look like black when viewed through yellow or brown tinted sunglasses.
As the typically brown-orange tinted blue blocking sunglasses are pretty wide spread in gliding (and for good reasons, I use Oakley and Zeiss Skylet, for example), I think that a GUI design for a gliding computer should take that into account. This is an issue with most programs, though.