Colour vision deficiency issues

[06nenglish]

Hi,

Really love the tool, going to help a great deal when performing tests. However I have one slight issue, maybe a quick way round maybe not.

I'm colour blind with Red, Green and Blue and struggle with similar colours quite badly and as you can imagine the graphs are very hard to decipher which colour matches the line on the graph.

If there is no option (I can't see anything set anywhere), it's something I will look into contributing as I know it'll help out many users.

Thanks!

[vlsi]

I know some colors (all of them?) are hard-coded in https://github.com/vlsi/ksar/blob/master/src/main/resources/Config.xml

I know there's http://colorbrewer2.org/ @06nenglish , do you think it is relevant?

[Pitterling]

Yes, its hard-coded, but only few graphs are covered.

The ksar_all.log file lists all missing colour code (you need to open each charts)

2017-08-19 13:45:48.970 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN net.atomique.ksar.GlobalOptions - color not found for tag %irq
2017-08-19 13:45:48.970 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN net.atomique.ksar.GlobalOptions - color not found for tag %soft
2017-08-19 13:45:48.970 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN net.atomique.ksar.GlobalOptions - color not found for tag %guest
2017-08-19 13:45:55.032 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN net.atomique.ksar.GlobalOptions - color not found for tag %irq
2017-08-19 13:45:55.032 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN net.atomique.ksar.GlobalOptions - color not found for tag %soft
2017-08-19 13:45:55.032 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN net.atomique.ksar.GlobalOptions - color not found for tag %guest
2017-08-19 13:46:05.984 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN net.atomique.ksar.GlobalOptions - color not found for tag kbmemfree

Feel free to create a "colour-blind" Config.xml and we make this available in the options dialog

[Pitterling]

I was playing with this colours

and adjusted the CPU chart, looks like this now

@06nenglish what do you think?

[06nenglish]

Apologies for the slow responses both!

@Pitterling that is a lot easier for me to understand. I really appreciate you taking the time to look into it for me. Was this done via the config.xml or was it actually code that required changing?

[vlsi]

@Pitterling , %guest is likely too light (it is hard to distinguish from white).
Is there a logic for sys, soft, steal being "red" and usr, nice, iowait being "blue"?

Diverging scale might suit better here.

[Pitterling]

@06nenglish yes, i only changed config.xml, i just picked the 8 proposed colours and distributed them across the stats ...

       <itemcolor name="%usr">
            <color>116,173,209</color>
        </itemcolor>
        <itemcolor name="%sys">
            <color>215,48,39</color>
        </itemcolor>
...
        <itemcolor name="%nice">
            <color>69,117,180</color>
        </itemcolor>
        <itemcolor name="%steal">
            <color>253,174,97</color>
        </itemcolor>
        <itemcolor name="%irq">
            <color>254,224,144</color>
        </itemcolor>
        <itemcolor name="%soft">
            <color>244,109,67</color>
        </itemcolor>
        <itemcolor name="%guest">
            <color>224,243,248</color>
        </itemcolor>
        <itemcolor name="%iowait">
            <color>171,217,233</color>
        </itemcolor>

@vlsi vlsi I'm open to any change .. finally the colour code scheme should come from colour blind people ...
I consider sys, soft, steal as more important .. therefore i wanted to highlight them more .. the light colours are proposed by the tool ..

In general we could offer, several sets .. default, colour blind ... etc

[Pitterling]

@06nenglish are you still looking into this? I expected an adjusted config.xml file, coming from color-blind affected people ...