If you've ever been to a real NOC, you'll notice that they usually have a large set of displays that are set up around the room for viewing problems at a glance. I can understand where they would be viewing from a distance.
Ideally, to aid color blind folks (I work with a guy that has Macular Degeneration and requires a special application that reverses his video) and those that are visually impaired, the icon set should have different shapes associated with them as well. I'd have to go look but I think Steve Aiello's set on The Shire are this way.
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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:08 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen
I'm sorry...from a distance?
It's a computer screen, not a TV.
You can make your own custom smilies anyways. Just overwrite the images.
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Stef Coene <user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
On Saturday 02 August 2008, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
My wife is a professional web/graphic designer.
I'll ask her to play around with creating another set of icons, although
Steve's should be acceptable to the PHB types.
I do have to say that no one here has grumbled at me about the name or
the iconss.
I received some remarks from some of my collegaes. 4 of them have color
blindness and it's very dificult to see the differences between the smileys
from a distance.
Stef