Re: [EXTERNAL] Phoebus Alarm Area Panel custom colours

[Maren Purves via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Never having looked at it, a question: do they work for all the
various forms of color blindness?
That may be a reason to change them. I have had to implement
non-default color plotting for pgplot to accommodate users.

Maren

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 4:15 AM Kasemir, Kay via Tech-talk
<tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> > I'm trying to see if there's a way to modify the alarm colours presented
> on the Phoebus Alarm Area Panel.
>
> The alarm colors (colours) are fetched from https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/phoebus/blob/master/app/alarm/ui/src/main/java/org/phoebus/applications/alarm/ui/AlarmUI.java
> In there, they are currently fixed.
> In part because it's considered important to have one set of alarm colors, so users know what's what. We certainly don't want to use red in one tool for 'MAJOR' alarm and in another tool for 'OK'.
> In part because so far no site that uses these alarm tools saw the need to customize them.
> If you have spare cycles, feel free to make them customizable, but if you then use that, you should assert that the colors used by displays (and this should also include web displays of control system info) use a consistent set of colors across your site.
>
> Thanks,
> Kay