Hobbit colors/icons

Adam Goryachev wrote:

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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 do fully agree with Adam as we experience the same effects.
The blinking icons are really eating too much of CPU for are Sun Ray based administration Network.

To circumvent this, we use following static-icons for the "Last change > 24 hours" type:

Color	Recently changed	Last change > 24 hours
Green: Status is OK
Yellow: Warning
Red: Critical
Clear: No data
Purple: No report
Blue: Disabled

Dominique