New status colours

[sledgehammer_999]

With v3.2.x I will change the colour scheme of the torrent status. This is what I have in mind. If you want to propose something else choose accordingly and comment below.

Error: Red
Paused: Grey
Queued:Grey
Downloading: Black
Seeding: Blue/light blue (something easy on the eye).
Stopped: Grey (if I add a stop button)

Stalled uploaders or stalled downloaders should not have a different color from seeding or downloading respectively. Do you agree?

(Depending on the suggestions I might run a new revised poll)

[Nemo]

The colors seems good to me.

Error: Red, definitly the right color.
Paused: Grey, I was thinking of making this the Stop button instead Pause (just a suggestion, im happy with Pause too doing the same thing)
Queued: Grey, Paused and Queued both Grey meaning that there isn't any activity (yet) seems good.
Downloading: Black, if you mean this with the white background then its good instead the green one that we have right now.
Seeding: Light blue would be nice I think. Lets see what others thinks about this too.
Stopped: Grey, same as Paused/Queued.

Suggestion: Instead having the whole torrent name in these colors you could change just the icons infront of the downloads. The letters torrent name and such would be black (green/orange right now depending on its activity) and then the icons infront of the torrents having these colors. The Status tab says what its doing so that shouldn't be that much of a confusion. Like for example the light blue icon when its seeding. A green icon could fit for downloading also in this case. When the torrent is active it could be black and when its stopped/paused/queued grey. What do you think?

Your opinions does count so lets hear it folks .

[ciaobaby]

For "Seeding", anything other than the current insipid yellow on white is fine with me.

[sledgehammer_999]

Don't forget to vote in the poll. (ciaobaby)

[UsL]

Hard coded black wouldn't look good (or at all) on a black back ground user like myself. I'm sure I'm not alone. It should be as avoided as having smthng hard coded white.

Otherwise it looks good.

Edit: Or as Nemo said, having what ever text the OS has as default and let the icons do the job of current torrent state description.
I think that would actually be the best approach as it would avoid any issues with people having alternate background colours.

[anonymous_ux]

Could you please switch it to a more mordern FLAT/Minimal UI type? Not only is it good, but since thats where all UI is heading, it would provide a more consistent user experience.

[sledgehammer_999]

[quote="UsL"]
Hard coded black wouldn't look good (or at all) on a black back ground user like myself. I'm sure I'm not alone. It should be as avoided as having smthng hard coded white.

Otherwise it looks good.

Edit: Or as Nemo said, having what ever text the OS has as default and let the icons do the job of current torrent state description.
I think that would actually be the best approach as it would avoid any issues with people having alternate background colours.
[/quote]

I was thinking the following instead. But since I haven't actually tested I don't know if it will work.
Have 2 sets of font colors. One set for light backgrounds and one for dark backgrounds. And decide which set to use based on the background. It seems that there are ways to determine what kind of background you have programmatically:
1-> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/596 ... -rgb-color
2-> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/185 ... ound-color

This would be awesome if it actually works.
The above set is for light backgrounds. For darker backgrounds we might need to only switch black/grey with white/something else.

[sledgehammer_999]

[quote="anonymous_ux"]
Could you please switch it to a more mordern FLAT/Minimal UI type? Not only is it good, but since thats where all UI is heading, it would provide a more consistent user experience.
[/quote]

Are you talking about icons? If yes, this is not the place. This thread is only for the text color in the transfer list. All other colors will be the system' colors.

[ciaobaby]

Why not just have it read from a XML tree of RGB hex codes. It only needs to be read at GUI start up and then and nobody can complain about the choices.

[CuriousTorrentor]

Please get rid of the god-awful grey and orange on white. If possible try to avoid neon colors too. Maybe make the background grey instead of white or pure black, and for colors like green go with a forest green instead of a neon green.

[TheMinecrafter]

For me, I would like:
Error: Red
Paused: Grey
Queued: Light purple
Downloading: Blue
Seeding: Green
Stopped: Black

I really would like the option to edit the GUI without having to build the program from source. Perhaps an .xml or .css file to load a color scheme, and icons if possible.

I made a mockup, some of the elements might be misaligned or have the wrong text, but for the most part is done.

Feel free to post your thoughts on this mockup.

[Calidude]

We need to get rid of the grey entirely. Sledgehammer, I suggest that downloading = green and everything you wrote as grey should be black.

[zeomal]

Black for downloading? Something nicer like the (current) green would be better.

[sledgehammer_999]

Why the hate for grey?!?!
I could leave the downloading as green. I just thought black should indicate active torrents and grey inactive torrents.

EDIT: @ the user you said to leave them all black and differentiate via the status icon/status text. I think color coding is a powerful tool if used correctly.

[zeomal]

Grey is not exactly a colour that lighten's one's mood.
It kind of brings in a feeling of desperation or hopelessness.
(Yeah, this is my personal interpretation, but I'm pretty sure a large group of people feel the same way.)

[quote="sledgehammer_999"]
I think color coding is a powerful tool if used correctly.
[/quote]
You might also want to check out this article: http://everything2.com/title/Colors+of+emotions. This should definitely help you organise things.