Spoiler: GNOME wins

Btw their GNOME Theme manager is here

  • boredsquirrelOP
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    1410 months ago

    Can you change these colored circles to symbols? Red/green are horrible, I can mostly not differetiate them

    • Captain Aggravated
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      1110 months ago

      Somehow I never considered that, MacOS’ stupid stoplight buttons aren’t particularly accessible, are they?

    • 0x0F
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      910 months ago

      they change to symbols when hovering, i don’t think they have a a11y setting for them :/

        • @ForgotAboutDre
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          410 months ago

          It’s a nice aesthetic choice in macos. They got rid of the icons, I always thought the order was clear. It’s like a car clutch closes the engine from the wheels, brake slows the car (minimise) and accelerator maximises.

          • boredsquirrelOP
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            710 months ago

            I think the windows layout makes more sense, also used on Android, ChromeOS, KDE, LXQt, XFCE, Budgie, Mate, Ubuntu GNOME, Cosmic-Epoch, …

            And still every one of them still has the symbols displayed.

      • boredsquirrelOP
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        10 months ago

        Yes. Pretty common among men, a trait from their mothers as it lies on the X chromosome. Most women dont have it, as they have a healthy one and it is recessive.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        I work with industrial human machine interfaces, used to operate heavy machinery. The prevalence of some form of colorblindness in the male population is around 15-17%, and most heavy machine operators are men.

        It’s enough of a safety issue that standards call for at least 2 ways of communicating alarms - most commonly shapes and colors, in many cases text is also used. The use of colors to indicate status (pump running, valve closed, etc) is also limited to colors with a distinct luminance value so that even people with full colorblindness can operate them easily.

        In the past, many HMIs were made in which green meant running, red stopped, yellow alarm… let’s just say a lot of people had to be maimed and killed before the standard was issued.