[pve-devel] [PATCH installer 1/1] fix #4869: Show state in management interface ComboBox

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 10/10/2023 um 14:56 schrieb Christoph Heiss:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 01:55:43PM +0200, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
>> UP   -> 🟢 https://unicode-explorer.com/c/1F7E2
> A green circle would be problematic/non-optimal for people deuteranopia
> (red-green color blindness). So maybe some other character/symbol
> distinctly recognizable as "being connected, up" - but purely
> color-coding things is not something that should be done IMO.

but those already get filled/not-filled as hint, i.e., this isn't just
purely color coding, that's why I explicitly used a *filled* green circle
for UP and for DOWN an *empty* one as preferred one due to vision
impairments like color blindness, like hinted ;-)

But sure, if you have a better idea for this just say so.
IMO the proposed one should be clear enough, as not only color (useful
for the majority of people) but also form is distinct, and I saw such
circles being used to indicate on/off or plugged/unplugged already in
a few UIs (such things are not easy to search for, so sorry, no concrete
example), but that doesn't mean there might be something better that is
still practical for both TUI and GUI.

> 
>> DOWN -> ◯ (preferred, easier to differ for vision impaired people) or ⬤
>>         https://unicode-explorer.com/c/25EF or https://unicode-explorer.com/c/2B24
> Do we really need to explicitly mark non-UP interfaces? I'd think the
> fact of it being not marked UP should provide enough context in this
> situation.

Yes, to give clear distinction to the UP state and make them more
distinct to each other, also to avoid text-alignment (visual symmetry)
problems (if the symbol prefixes the iface name, which I guesstimate
will look better).