Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] fence-like levelmeter

[thomas schorpp <t schorpp gmx de>]

Jan Schampera wrote:
> Hi Devs,

hi Jan,

> Damien asked me to do some ressearch on a widget that can give a "link
> quality" status. Imagine it in the lower left corner, right next to the
> status text of the main window.

1.) ergonomics analysis

> The animation is composed of the 5 states the widget can show 0-1-2-3-4.

ok, every kid with a mobile knows and can read this symbol

> I tried to get some color relation to the Ekiga logo (a darker orange
> and a lighter one).

mozilla does not show any brightness differences here.

marketing priorities with technical meter ergonomics collision:

every quality meter (like for tv-apps) must be light-green, or risk 
of user symbol misinterpretation/confusion (rising quality or error rate?).
color steps from red over yellow to green (~<20% statistic median of lost packets or so) 
are more easy for users to report and communicate to the devs in case 
of problems. IMHO.
On STUN problems the symbol should flash light red/yellow with f=2Hz.  

> Technically the widget will take a level value between 0.0 and 1.0 and
> will recalculate it internally, that way one can change the view (maybe
> more bars) and doesn't need to change external calculation code. The
> widget will be native 22px to 22px (icons).

looks ok.

> Any comments about the optics so far? The widget code isn't ready yet.
>
> http://www.thebonsai.de/images/gtkfencemeter4_ani.gif
>
>
> J.

y
tom