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Bug 689676 - the label color is unusual
the label color is unusual
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
3.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-12-05 03:13 UTC by Andreas Nilsson
Modified: 2013-09-03 11:11 UTC
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Description Andreas Nilsson 2012-12-05 03:13:57 UTC 
The palette used for the labels that identify the screens are used nowhere else in the desktop and blends in badly with the rest of the look & feel.

I think we could choose something more appropriate than pink for a serious system like GNOME.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2012-12-05 11:30:03 UTC 
the relevant function here is

panels/display/cc-rr-labeler.c:make_palette

which has the following comment

        /* The idea is that we go around an hue color wheel.  We want to start
         * at red, go around to green/etc. and stop at blue --- because magenta
         * is evil.  Eeeeek, no magenta, please!
         *
         * Purple would be nice, though.  Remember that we are watered down
         * (i.e. low saturation), so that would be like Like berries with cream.
         * Mmmmm, berries.
         */
Comment 2 Allan Day 2013-04-20 13:12:12 UTC 
My current thinking is that we shouldn't use colours to identify displays, but should instead number them. This is something that we need to address as a part of a displays panel redesign.

See https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Displays
Comment 3 Thomas Wood 2013-09-03 11:11:39 UTC 
The design mentioned by Allan has been implemented for 3.10 and no longer uses colours to identify displays.