Ryan wrote:
Green has a meaning of "Go" or of "this is ok" in many cultures. Making either side green gives a bias to the diff. Similarly with red. Red means "Stop" or "this is not ok". Many people associate red with blood, and green with nature.
When the French created the new color scheme, they assigned no meaning to the colors, and neither should we. You can associate any meaning with any color and find fault with any one of them... Yellow means "hate" in other cultures. Blue means "move over, police!". The possibilities are endless. Let's just make everything gray... Oh no, grey depresses me...
Fact is, red/green is good for inline diffs, but any other color is fair game for side-by-side diffs.
May I remind y'all that you are continuing to bikeshed. It's not that it doesn't matter, it's that a very small number of people care very very much. Speaking of a disaster that's already happening, if y'all don't move this conversation to wikicolors-yellow-blue-green-red-L@lists.wikimedia.org, I'm unsubscribing.
Speaking of usability, why is this mailing list called Wiki Tech List Lists Wiki Media org? Surely there's some extra duplicate redundancy there there?
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Erwin Dokter erwin@darcoury.nl wrote:
Ryan wrote:
Green has a meaning of "Go" or of "this is ok" in many cultures. Making either side green gives a bias to the diff. Similarly with red. Red means "Stop" or "this is not ok". Many people associate red with blood, and green with nature.
When the French created the new color scheme, they assigned no meaning to the colors, and neither should we. You can associate any meaning with any color and find fault with any one of them... Yellow means "hate" in other cultures. Blue means "move over, police!". The possibilities are endless. Let's just make everything gray... Oh no, grey depresses me...
Fact is, red/green is good for inline diffs, but any other color is fair game for side-by-side diffs.
-- Erwin Dokter
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Russell Nelson russnelson@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of usability, why is this mailing list called Wiki Tech List Lists Wiki Media org? Surely there's some extra duplicate redundancy there there?
It isn't, that's just what your $mail_client decided to call it, for me it's listed as "Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org", so feel free to update your address book to your name of choice.
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Russell Nelson russnelson@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of usability, why is this mailing list called Wiki Tech List Lists Wiki Media org? Surely there's some extra duplicate redundancy there there?
Do you mean the -l suffix is redundant with the list. prefix? Yes, that's known, but I think it's some legacy thing because the -l suffix was required way back when this mailing list was first set up.
Roan
So just a reminder to y'all:
* the primary indicator is physical ordering (left = before; right = after) * the secondary indicator is "+" and "-" symbols indicating additional and removal * the colors are totally arbitrary to help set sections apart from each other visibly * the only important thing about the colors is that the text is legible
Please keep it civil. Thanks!
-- brion
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
- the only important thing about the colors is that the text is legible
We could save this debate by just making them the same color. ;-)
</trolling>
Steven
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From: "Steven Walling" steven.walling@gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
- the only important thing about the colors is that the text is
legible
We could save this debate by just making them the same color. ;-)
</trolling>
Oh; we're inaugurating Whacky Weekend on this list too? Cool!
Cheers, -- jra
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