Thread: POLL: Should talk.maemo.org create and support a dark theme like the original ITT?
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2009-05-03 , 22:01
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#43
Originally Posted by luca View Post
While I agree that the new theme is better on the tablet, I've no problem with my other machine (a 1680x1050 lcd screen): I don't spend all day reading the titles (though I don't find them too bad), and black on white is the combination I prefer.
I continually use the "new posts" link, and that page is full of titles, so there the "orange issue" has a much bigger impact than when reading a thread.
So, basically, are you saying that a dark theme would be better in a dimly lit room, while a black-on-white theme is only good in well lit rooms? Sorry, I don't buy it, you can adjust the backlight intensity to match the room illumination, and black-on-white is still more readable.
Yes, you can adjust the backlight, and usually you have done so already, but remember that the screen serves many uses, apart from reading this forum, so the adjustment won't be that easy. Remember too, that everyone is different, and some people find black-on-white more readable and some others light-on-dark (I'm myself among the later).
My eyes aren't particularly good (I'm 43 and myopic), but I do know they ache if I look at a white-on-black (or generally bright-on-dark) page.
When I was younger I had no problem staring during hours at a green-phosphor crt (green on black). Besides, there was no alternative

I also stared hours upon hours at a green crt of old times.
But once cheap color screens arrived, the best color combination I've ever found (at least for me) is the old Borland theme (yellow on dark blue). Still today I use it for programming, while having to read pdf's where they force you black on white makes my eyes cry.
Of course, reading printed paper is an entirely different matter.
I'm not disagreeing with you on this, I was just disagreeing to the blunt affirmation that this is an unusable eyesore: it isn't for everybody.
We all know that it isn't for everybody, I'm not saying that. What I say is that, since it is problematic to some people ("some" being a not very small number), providing a choice for them doesn't hurt anybody and solves such problems. I insist so much in the ergonomic aspect to remember everyone that we are all different, and that what to someone may be perfect, can actually hurt some other.
I agree that choice is good (in fact, if I hadn't the choice in the previous version to select the classic theme, I wouldn't have endured this forums for a long time, I already think that forums are a PITA without having to also hurt my eyes to follow one).
You understand