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Improve status indicators in chat window #156

Open gabedwrds opened 9 years ago

gabedwrds commented 9 years ago

The current green/grey status indicators can be hard to decipher at a glance. This isn't much of an issue on the contact list since contacts are separated by their status anyway, but in the chat window it's easy to miss the fact that someone has gone offline.

One solution might be to add a sort of warning text next to the name if I shouldn't expect to be able to talk to someone:

screen shot 2015-04-03 at 23 43 50

rawtaz commented 9 years ago

@gabedwrds In version 1.1.0, released recently, the "bar" has been replaced with a round and more visible indicator. Do you think it's good as it is now?

gabedwrds commented 9 years ago

It's an improvement. I'm only slightly colourblind so I don't have much trouble with it anymore, but for full accessibility it shouldn't rely solely on colour at all.