[RFE] Red bikeshed

[Robin Laing]

Tim 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. 
> 
> Blue can be worse for some people.  I would think that if you wanted a
> more universal non-colour solution, to use inverse video for failure
> warnings.  That'd really stick out like a sore thumb.
> 
> I'm not sure that you'd have to rewrite all the init scripts, just the
> one that starts things and reads in the results.
> 
> Just curious, but is the lack of an obvious "OKAY" message not useful?
> 

Just a suggestion, could the fail have some spaces added before it to 
make it stand outside the direct line of ok's?

[ok]
[ok]
[   fail]
[ok]
[ok]

Now colour becomes a smaller issue and it stands out quite well.

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Robin Laing