Hi Dimitris, On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 08:37:56PM +0000, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > I completely agree - dark mode is great for content that you want to > look cool, but no one consumes. :-)
I actually meant this in jest, which is why it has the smiley face afterwords. I don't know which is more popular, light or dark themes, I'm glad that Pharo makes it easy to automatically change to which ever one prefers - which was what the code following this sentence was demonstrating. > You assume wrong cause dark themes have been dominating GUIs for over 3 > decades > now. Pharo was the rare exception of using a white theme. Light themes may be > popular but white are definitely not. The web is the last fort of bright > themes, but the web was and still is eons behind when it comes to matters of > UI. > > My first computer was black background with green fonts, black back in 80 and > 90s was pretty much the norm. There was no white or bright themes back then. > It > was not because the monitors had any issues with displaying white. I had my terminals set to black background with green fonts up to last year since that is what I was used to from my Dick Smith System 80 (TRS-80 clone). :-) Going slightly off topic: I suspect terminals used a dark theme by default because a light theme would burn out the CRT. If I remember correctly, DEC VT-220's had a light theme (which I didn't use). > It was actually the web that made white a thing. Probably inexperienced web > coders (there were no web devs back then ) thought it made sense transitioning > from paper. Problem is that paper , reflects light, does not emit it. > > White or dark is a matter of preference. But the matter of preference is also > a > matter of biology . Not all eyes are same. Some eyes have hard time > distinguishing elements in dark environments , others have hard time > distinguishing elements in bright environments but excel at dark environments. > I belong to the second case as such white themes for me are pretty much > unacceptable for any content I have to read for a long time. > > My monitor as we speak is set to 1/16th of its brightness which is the minimum > setting. During the day that sun goes in my room it goes up to 3/16 maximum. > Above that I am forced to simply reduce the light in the room. > > Trying to use Moose especially that was even brighter it was even harder for > me > to the point I gave up and never used it since then. > > So yes there are many of us who were raised with dark themes, still use dark > themes , will continue to use dark themes and criticise any app that does not > support them. For me the Dark theme has been the most important improvement of > Pharo and I am not exaggerating one tiny bit. I largely agree with what you've said. My eyes have just deteriorated in the opposite direction - I can't read with a dark theme (my terminals are now dark text on a white background). My apologies for any offence, it wasn't intended. Cheers, Alistair
