Re: [PATCH gitweb] Visually indicating patch size with horizontal bars

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:33:38AM CET, I got a letter
where Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> told me that...
> On 11/2/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> > What about having the color indicate the number of affected files (let's
> > say on a blue..red scale) and the width the size of patch?
> 
> I'm a /little bit/ colour blind on the red scale -- so I vote for 2
> bars, each half the heigth of the current bar.  ;-)

That's certainly possible as well (if you make each of the bars of
different color), but for most people not equally visually obvious.
Perhaps we could have a knob at the bottom of the page, but that isn't
very satisfying a solution either... :-(

Another possibility is to make the height dynamic and in proportion with
the number of affected files. Or combine both the color and dynamic
height. I believe changing the color to red would make it appear as
black for the red-color-blind people?

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