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Spoiler: GNOME wins

Btw their GNOME Theme manager is here

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Wow apple, great job!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can change them to grey circles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't gnome only have close?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes but you can add all buttons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are you red-green colorblind?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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] 5 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why don’t you just use key commands?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're right, a keyboard-driven tiling wm does seem like a better idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Most OSs have an app for it, if it’s not already built in.