status indicator options
Status indicators for battery state, badge link or more could be useful to have at some point.
To use the LEDs for that however is a bit tricky in reality: Since applications and also the menu may make heavy use of LEDs for prettification, even if we have a driver override to keep an LED at a color if it is used as an indicator it can never be clear to the user if it has that color because it is an indicator or because of a background pattern.
We came up with a few approaches:
- restrict applications and menu color choices (blegh, let's not)
- make indicators have defined animations such that a collision with an application is less likely (example: non-rng red/orange warble for warning)
- don't use tip LEDS for applications at all ever since they don't contribute to bottom petal lighting
- status is indicated by screen only, LEDs have nothing to do with it (status quo)
Personally we think 2) (+3)?) for badge link "don't plug headphones/output stages into this" warning would work well, for the rest we're flirting with 4), maybe 3) if it looks alright.
Any ideas/opinions?