242
This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters
(pointieststick.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
242 points (99.6% liked)
Linux
48335 readers
405 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
if this changes all colors with a global filter the way that some games like Overwatch (used to) do, then it's really not going to help anyone. I'm red-green colorblind, so when something is highlighted in red it isn't as obvious to me as it is to people with normal vision. However, the fix isn't too globally mess with all the colors, the fix is to let me pick the highlight color so that I can choose what works best for me. Many games have figured this out long ago (thank you game devs!).
The funniest is when game devs accidentally implement a mode that simulates colour blindness instead of helping colour blindness.
Yeah, I mean doing that makes sense for internal testing, but why the hell would you make it public... Did this actually happen?
yep, sure did: https://old.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/5uw5cs
Well, they do already have that as part of their normal theming options. There's just software where KDE's theming doesn't apply, like games and webpages, and best they can do for those, is to offer such filters...
well I'm sure some people will find it useful, but in my experience global filters make a global mess of everything without doing much of anything to alleviate the problem. Lucky for people like me, many games already have better options, and in other applications it usually isn't much of a problem
Do you mean the global filters change every colour making all the colours wrong/different, and you want to be able to override just the ones you have trouble with? I've never looked at colourblind options before so I'm not sure what they do.
yeah those ones, they completely mess up all colors and still don't help
Lol OW was the first thing I thought of.
Me: hey look a protan filter
OW: okay, red is now pink, and everything else is washed out :)
Me: okay tritan it is
OW: lol have fun on your acid trip
I have the same, why wouldnt this help?
oh it would for simple graphics like graphs/charts, but it'd be worse than useless for everything else like pictures / photos / video. That's why I mentioned Overwatch as the example, which was the most egregious offender of this. If you turned on the colorblind mode in that game back when it was first introduced, it just ~~chroma~~ hue shifted all colors making it look like this:
how anyone with a functioning eye and brain ever thought that was the solution is beyond me
Not colorblind here but that looks more like a colorblindness simulator than anything else.