MantisBT - ParaView
1. Most people who suffer from color deficiencies (~ 10% of the male population) cannot distinguish between red, yellow, and green very well. It makes the icons mostly pointless for them.
2. The three states (green=good, yellow=bad, red=more bad) is one state too many? What is the point of the yellow state? It does not seem to be used at all. Furthermore, I can't see the point of using it in any case. Either the plugin loaded successfully, or it didn't.
3. The green=good state is unnecessarily distracting. Why do we need an icon that draws your attention to say that everything is fine? It is much better to have nothing when everything is fine and an attention grabbing icon when it is not. Thus, your attention will be drawn to those entries with problems.
Instead of the red, yellow, green dots, I recommend having one "warning" icon for the error conditions and nothing for the success conditions. The icon most commonly used for this purpose is a yellow triangle (with black boarder) and an exclamation point inside it. I have attached an image which I think will work fine for such an icon. (I'm not paid for icon creation for a reason, so no hard feelings if you use some else's.)
Warning.svg (45,466) 2009-08-12 12:35https://www.vtk.org/Bug/file/7401/Warning.svg
Warning.png (398) 2009-08-12 12:35https://www.vtk.org/Bug/file/7402/Warning.png
