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It's incredible and pathetic how color-handling has regressed since the early '90s. Windows 3.1 through XP had system-wide, user-configurable color schemes. Yo
by PunksATawnyFill 8y ago
It's incredible and pathetic how color-handling has regressed since the early '90s.
Windows 3.1 through XP had system-wide, user-configurable color schemes. You could set up a non-inverse (what today is being touted as "dark mode") color scheme in a few minutes and all applications would honor it. You could do the same in Unix GUIs. Only the Mac forced its glaring inverse-video scheme on you 24/7.
Now, inexplicably, Windows has ELIMINATED the ability to set up a global color scheme, and Apple has delivered this half-assed, hard-coded workaround after 40 years. This after Apple was challenged at WWDC in the early 2000s for their lack of color schemes, and feigned total ignorance that anyone would want them.