Comment 667 for bug 532633

Your post is nonsense. Nothing I said had anything to do with
"beauty". I was talking about how poor selections of colors can induce
eye strain and make it difficult to use a UI.

I am talking about well established principles based on decades of
experimentation and on the physiology eye and the effects of aging on
the eye.

Purple is a horrible background color because it combines both read
and blue. Staring at purple depletes two of the three sets of color
receptors in the eye. That will cause everything else around you to
appear to be depleted of red and blue. The color sensors are the low
resolution part of the eye. They intensity network that sees shades of
gray is the high resolution part of the eye. If you want people to be
able to read and see details you have to use colors that are strong
divided in intensity, not by color shade.

This is nothing new. It is human factors 101. It is taught to Chefs in
culinary schools so they now enough to make signs and menus that are
usable by their customers.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Pako <email address hidden> wrote:
> No one, including rocket scientist can't tell which colour is the most
> beautiful one. There is no most beautiful colour in the world.
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> [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532633
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> Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
> Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> === Master Bug ===
> (As per the design team's request
> All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug.
> All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one.
>
> === Desire ===
> "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)."
>
> ==== Workaround ====
> 1. Only new themes, such as Ambiance and Radiance will have buttons on the left by default. You can continue using old themes, such as Human, in Lucid and those themes will continue to have buttons on the right side (according to http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/577 ). It is even possible to switch to Human theme and then 'Customize' it to use all the elements from Radiance theme, but the button layout will stay on the right.
>
> 2. To revert to old layout, run in a terminal:
> $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
>
> ==== Responses ====
> Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17
> http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons")
> http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10)
>
> Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503
> http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/564 ("Final decree"; close-min-max ordering)
>
> Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24
> http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24)
>
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