[Cdash] coverage color palette

[David Cole]

colorbrewer2.org has a cool way of trying out color schemes right in your
web browser.

They also have a "colorblind safe" checkbox that supposedly only suggests
color schemes that are ok for colorblind folks.

If you have a useful suggestion for specific color values that we could use
as reasonable CDash default colors that are colorblind safe, I think we
would be open to changing the default colors to such a scheme, but then
have an easy way for people who want it to revert back to the original
color scheme.


Thanks, (and hoping somebody will suggest actual color values for us.... ;-)
David




On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Yngve Levinsen <yngve.levinsen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ah, thanks. I didn't realise it was that obvious (sorry).
>
> I went for a blue/red palette, but I am terrible at chosing good looking
> colors so I would not recommend my specific choises. Blue/red generally
> though I think is less problematic and more than obvious enough for
> everyone to understand. It is also what lcov is using.
>
> By the way, for the coverage files you should set background-color in
> "span.lineNoCov" and "span.lineCov" of the css file (for other people
> reading this having similar problem).
>
> Cheers,
> Yngve
>
>
> On 18 December 2012 14:03, Julien Jomier <julien.jomier at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Yngve,
>>
>> This is definitely something we need to address. In the meantime, you
>> should be able to tune the cdash.css in order to change the colors.
>>
>> .normal {
>>  background-color : #8aba5a;
>> }
>>
>> .warning {
>>  background-color : #fdb66d;
>> }
>>
>> .error {
>>  background-color : #de6868;
>> }
>>
>> .Passed { background-color : #8aba5a; }
>> .Failed { background-color : #fdba76; }
>> .Not Run { background-color : #ff6666; }
>>
>> The current idea would be to provide different CSS files so that users
>> can switch to the one they want. If you find optimal colors let me know.
>>
>> Julien
>>
>>
>> On 18/12/2012 13:50, Yngve Levinsen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just got a complaint from a user that the color palette used for
>>> viewing the coverage files is very suboptimal for color-blind users. I
>>> see that this has been brought up in the past:
>>> http://public.kitware.com/**pipermail/cdash/2012-June/**001169.html<http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cdash/2012-June/001169.html>
>>>
>>> Has there been any progress on this? Is there a quick way I can change
>>> the green/red colors myself for now on my cdash server?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Yngve
>>>
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