Workflow Diagram: stop using colour to show selection
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Description
In the workflow diagram right now, we use colour to show the selected node (and its adjacent edgees)
It doesn't work great right now, the contrast against the grey is too low when zoomed out.
But when we add run overlay information, and we're colouring nodes red and green and whatever, the problem gets worse! We need many more hues of colour
So we should use something other than colour
Maybe an outline sort of effect? Here's a horrible mockup:
The outline could be dotted or dashed
It could have a background colour
It could pulse with animation
It should use the regular node's border colour, so that we don't have to pick put a million new colours
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the workflow diagram implementation and how selected nodes and adjacent edges are currently styled. Compare the existing selection treatment with the proposed outline, background, or animation approaches, then confirm with maintainers which non-colour treatment should be used and how selection should remain distinguishable alongside run overlay colours.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- elixir
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100