GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 663569
Download and send information unclear to colorblind
Last modified: 2011-11-14 22:50:43 UTC
Forwarded from downstream Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/485712 Eight percent of the male population suffer from some form of colorblindness. Therefore it the choice of colors for download and upload rates in gnome-system-monitor is not so good. I suffer from mild colorblindness, and have problems separating colors with a blue base and red or green tints from each other. It would be better to switch one of the colors to something very different, for example dark red or brown, and keeping the other one blue. As it is now I can't see any difference between the download and upload, which is annoying since I use it often to check if my crappy internet connection is working.
Please create a patch with a value you think is good and we'll go from there.
Created attachment 201127 [details] [review] patch to change the default net out color The response from the dowstream reporter was : "Thank you for looking into it. I have tested different colors and at least to me the following combination is easy to distinguish from each other. - Download #2D7DB3 (blue, same as before) - Upload #EE1D00 (red, new color) At least to red-green colorblind this combination should be easy to tell apart, since one is blue based and the other red based. It is difficult to see the difference between blue based colors such as blue, purple and cyan." Based on this I have attached the patch to change the default net out color to the color the reported has suggested.
*** Bug 614659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks. Patch committed.