Code review comment for lp:~allenap/launchpad/dd-beta-icon-bug-827508

> Thanks for taking the time to find the best way to communicate that this
> feature is in beta.
>
> If Huw were here, we'd have sorted this fairly swiftly, I think. We need a re-
> usable recipe for indicating that something's in beta.
>
> I agree that the red strip is better than the original beta icon. However, it
> looks a little lost on the full page.
>
> Could we re-use the privacy ribbon from the Managing Disclosure project for
> the full page beta indicator? That would make it more clear that it's talking
> about the feature/page, rather than just one part of it, and it wouldn't
> interrupt the flow of the page.

We could do I suppose, but I'm reluctant to dig back into UI
design-like stuff. I do not have the design skills and experience of
someone like Huw, and I cannot acquire or even reasonably imitate
those skills quickly enough to make addressing this problem "properly"
be much more than an expensive folly.

>
> The Teal squad originally allowed for dismissing the privacy ribbon, so that'd
> be a good way to avoid it being annoying.

ISTR reading that dismissing the ribbon was considered a Bad
Thing. Indeed, it's no longer possible to dismiss it.

Also, overloading the top of the page for a BETA message is probably
confusing, especially since we have a red colour for both the BETA
icon and the privacy message. In other words, we'd probably have to
choose another colour for BETA.

>
> I marking this "Needs information" because I want to know how long it would
> take to re-purpose the Teal squad's privacy ribbon. I think the portlet beta
> indicator is fine in the circumstances; we need Huw to re-work the design of
> the portlets generally.

Technically, repurposing probably would not take too long, but it
opens new cans of design and interaction worms.

In short, I don't think I'm the right person to fix this issue
generally, I just need to get something done for Derived Distributions
and move on.