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Emperor a tool for the analysis and visualization of large microbial ecology datasets
http://biocore.github.io/emperor/
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color legends should somehow reflect visibility #210

Open gregcaporaso opened 10 years ago

gregcaporaso commented 10 years ago

When certain metadata categories are not visible it would be useful for that to somehow be reflected in the color legend (e.g, by greying those out).

ElDeveloper commented 10 years ago

This is a tricky issue, the problem here is that one menu is independent of the other, so when you hide/show samples of one category under a metadata header it is possible that the coloring in the other is by a different metadata header hence there won't be a match between these.

On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:05 PM, Greg Caporaso notifications@github.com wrote:

When certain metadata categories are not visible it would be useful for that to somehow be reflected in the color legend (e.g, by greying those out).

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rob-knight commented 10 years ago

Right, and it is important that visibility and color can be controlled orthogonally for interactive analysis.

Rob

On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Yoshiki Vázquez Baeza notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

This is a tricky issue, the problem here is that one menu is independent of the other, so when you hide/show samples of one category under a metadata header it is possible that the coloring in the other is by a different metadata header hence there won't be a match between these.

On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:05 PM, Greg Caporaso notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

When certain metadata categories are not visible it would be useful for that to somehow be reflected in the color legend (e.g, by greying those out).

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— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/qiime/emperor/issues/210#issuecomment-27509668.

ElDeveloper commented 10 years ago

@wasade commented that he expected the Key tab to account for visibility, which I think is a GREAT suggestion, as you can have truly orthogonal tabs.