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Great. Did they bring back the color-scheme editor? Now that everyone is (30+ years later) finally realizing that inverse-video color schemes are dumb... Micro

Great. Did they bring back the color-scheme editor? Now that everyone is (30+ years later) finally realizing that inverse-video color schemes are dumb... Microsoft REMOVED the color-scheme editor from Windows. WTF?

vezycash 8y ago
I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly! Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier versions of Win 10.
- craftyguy 8y ago
  > I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Out of pure curiosity, how does that protect your eyes? And from what?
  - bicubic 8y ago
    It doesn't. Eye fatigue is caused by being focused on the same depth for prolonged periods of time. That fixed depth being slightly closer or further away changes very little. Having a habit of regularly looking away from your monitor and focusing on a distant object negates it. When doing prolonged microscopy work, we were trained to take a break every 30 min and focus on something very close, then focus on something far, back and forth, several times.
  - felipelemos 8y ago
    I suppose that is to avoid to look at a large screen too close.
- ygra 8y ago
  With custom UI toolkits more prevalent than ever these days, do such tweaks even work across a wide range of applications?
  - vezycash 8y ago
    It worked for all the applications I use except one - a music player. And in that music player, it mostly worked except for some dialog boxes.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Generally, if stuff like this breaks I usually drop the application.
    - oblio 8y ago
      That's assuming you can drop it.
      - saagarjha 8y ago
        Yeah, sometimes that's a problem. Usually, these apps tend to be some sort of web technology, which means I can use them in a browser, so I've been lucky in that sense.
- 2ion 8y ago
  Windows is now an OS for amateurs and not professionals.
- tru3_power 8y ago
  I totally forgot about this feature from my pre Mac windows XP days
- nazri1 8y ago
  I feel you. https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/

vezycash 8y ago

I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly! Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier versions of Win 10.

craftyguy 8y ago
> I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Out of pure curiosity, how does that protect your eyes? And from what?
- bicubic 8y ago
  It doesn't. Eye fatigue is caused by being focused on the same depth for prolonged periods of time. That fixed depth being slightly closer or further away changes very little. Having a habit of regularly looking away from your monitor and focusing on a distant object negates it. When doing prolonged microscopy work, we were trained to take a break every 30 min and focus on something very close, then focus on something far, back and forth, several times.
- felipelemos 8y ago
  I suppose that is to avoid to look at a large screen too close.
ygra 8y ago
With custom UI toolkits more prevalent than ever these days, do such tweaks even work across a wide range of applications?
- vezycash 8y ago
  It worked for all the applications I use except one - a music player. And in that music player, it mostly worked except for some dialog boxes.
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Generally, if stuff like this breaks I usually drop the application.
  - oblio 8y ago
    That's assuming you can drop it.
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      Yeah, sometimes that's a problem. Usually, these apps tend to be some sort of web technology, which means I can use them in a browser, so I've been lucky in that sense.
2ion 8y ago
Windows is now an OS for amateurs and not professionals.
tru3_power 8y ago
I totally forgot about this feature from my pre Mac windows XP days
nazri1 8y ago
I feel you. https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/