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Kip, D. - GDI/SNB wrote:
In general, I only want something to blink that requires immediate attention. And I want things that are in a 'normal' state to be pretty blended into the background.
Personally, I find blinking icons to be quite a problem. I usually have a tab open on my browser on the bb2.html page, and the blinking icons can cause major problems for the CPU on some devices (especially my Atom based netbook, or other low power devices). Previously I replaced my icons with the nb (non-blinking) versions, but just thought I might add my voice to the discussion on avoiding animated icons for any state...
ie, I monitor all my customer DSL connections, but when some major supplier goes offline, I end up with a stack of red status on my screen, so 200 red flashing animated icons causes a lot of CPU consumption (or so it seems)....
I really like the idea of using slowly changing colours, though perhaps it should be very bright immediately, fade to 50% over the next x hours, and then go back to very bright... ie, it should start obvious (your disk just failed, panic now!) and then if you don't react, then it probably isn't so important (fades), if it has been bad for a long time, then it should get brighter/more annoying again. This could be done without images by using the HTML graphics as seen in the history graphs (history uptime). Then you just need a config to say start at #xxxxxx and move to #yyyyyy over xx minutes and then move to #zzzzzz over yy minutes and then stay there....
BTW, I wonder if HTML flash uses less CPU than animated images....
Regards, Adam
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