[RFE] Red bikeshed

[Nicholas Robinson]

On Friday 25 April 2008 17:02:02 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 16:45 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> > In view of the increasing prevalence of users with impaired colour
> > vision I would like to suggest changing the boot sequence to use blue
> > to indicate failure to start a service.
> >
> > It would of course require testing all current initscripts to ensure
> > they work correctly with the new success/failure/action functions from
> > /etc/init.d/functions ...
> >
> > Any takers for testing?
>
> How about blinking text? It's horrible and thus is suitable for alarms.
>
> poc

The difference between OK and FAILED is pretty conclusive. Not only the 
meanings, but the longer FAILED stands out from the OKs even across a room. 
Colour-coding and blinking are only syntactic sugar.

My mother was completely unable to tell the difference between red and green 
and I recall as a very small child we were driving along when I realised with 
horror that this meant she couldn't tell stop from go at traffic lights! I 
feared an imminent crash, but she patiently explained that she knew that if 
the top light was on it meant stop and the bottom one... You get my drift: we 
impaired people have other ways than just colour for working out which way is 
up.

Nick