#2790 - Monitor button size/hue

By Adam Edington
Added 22nd Aug 2016, 2:18 PM
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Identifier	#2790
Issue type	Trivial issue (does not break functionality)
Title	Monitor button size/hue
Status	Closed (rejected)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	core
Description	Again this could be be with good reason (ie, to highlight the button, which would be better in my opinion with a green background). My eye was drawn to the difference in size and I am not sure if this is supposed to be the same dimensions as other such buttons.
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By Guest posted 22nd Aug 2016, 2:18 PM

By Guest posted 22nd Aug 2016, 2:36 PM

You also planned to give the Add topic button on the forums a new hue to make it a bit more obvious (as that is probably the button people will be using more often than not).

By Guest posted 22nd Aug 2016, 4:50 PM

I'm sure this could be better, but not along these lines as it follows our rules about button sizing and colouring.

All colours for surfaces in the default theme are based around blends of the seed colour. If we made it green, we'd be making bad assumptions - e.g. it would look terrible on a green background.

Screen-level activities are given big buttons. Sub-tasks are given small buttons. Potentially you could argue posting an update is a screen-level thing and that it should be big, but it's debatable - and it would look really bad big. Definitely though it's consistent to make the monitor button big.

By Guest posted 22nd Aug 2016, 4:54 PM

I'll create a new issue for the add topic button. Please also only use the private issue feature for highly confidential issues, like security holes.

By Guest posted 23rd Aug 2016, 10:27 PM

Yes sorry, I would have posted these on IRC given that I wasn't sure they were issues or not but nobody there lately. I tend to hit private if I'm not entirely sure what I'm saying is valid as I don't like my input being public if it's nonsensical (which it sometimes is). Fine though, but it was more general feedback than bug reports on the ones I made private.

By Guest posted 23rd Aug 2016, 11:43 PM

It's just I like things to be as decentralised as possible, so it doesn't rely on me or me directly delegating responses / cleanup. I really appreciate your issues.