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> KDE with the default breeze theme Well, I don't like Windows classic style very much, but I use KDE with Breeze and it is the widget style I prefer amoung an

by jraph 7y ago

> KDE with the default breeze theme Well, I don't like Windows classic style very much, but I use KDE with Breeze and it is the widget style I prefer amoung anything I have seen, with macOS just a bit under but I haven't used it very much. It is a big contrast with Oxygen in KDE 4, which is the widespread theme I liked the less. Breeze is just clean, simple, elegant. It bears its name well. I also tend to use Breeze in Gnome 3 when I periodically try it (Gnome is so beautiful with Breeze!), though Adwaita got a lot better recently, to the point it went from "I dislike this theme, why is it the default?" to "Pretty cool theme!". I might stick with it next time I try Gnome. Same for Tango, though I still prefer Breeze, maybe out of habit. > recently used a recent copy of photoshop and premiere and the black UI and the widgets being different from the UI of the whole system really bugged me off Same thing for Blender and Open Shot. Isn't it to help focus on the content?

aesh2Xa1 7y ago
I'd strongly agree on the point that a dark theme in a media editor (or similar context) draws focus to the project and away from the controls. But I also believe that the UI experience should lean towards uniformity. Still, if you're an expert user of specific software perhaps your brain already manages the context switch. At least, though, maybe the WM could become context aware like Android's dark mode.
- kccqzy 7y ago
  That's exactly what I think dark mode should be; helping you focus on the content. Unfortunately too many people misunderstood this and started making apps where everything is dark. A word processor shouldn't have its page white-on-black. A news reader shouldn't display its contents on white-on-black.
  - mroche 7y ago
    > A word processor shouldn't have its page white-on-black. A news reader shouldn't display its contents on white-on-black. I’m young with (I believe) very good eyesight and I physically can’t handle white-on-black styles, especially with text. And I mean #000 and 240-255. It literally burns and blurs my eyes. A dark gray paired with a light gray or off-white is much more pleasing and readable to me. I won’t discount those styles for text though, because at night it can help my eyes not melt out of my skull compared to black-on-white pages. And I have at times used Google Drive dark CSS themes while doc writing for extended late night sessions, and enabled some for GitLab and GitHub. As someone who has spent considerable time in CG DCCs (Digital Content Creation), I can confirm that dark themes are a godsend and help immensely (for me) on focusing on the content. It also has the added benefit of not “tainting” your color perception when working with imagery. Blackmagic Design was under fire for a bit because they revamped themes in Resolve and Fusion from a neutral gray to a subtly hinted blue-gray and it threw off color artists as it influenced their grading.
    - Doxin 7y ago
      From my experience most people who have trouble with black-on-white text simply have their monitor set too bright. White shouldn't be eye-searing, it should be roughly as bright as a piece of paper under the lighting on your desk.
  - PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
    It should be what the user dictates. As a default, white on blue was found to be the best 30+ years ago, and was a checkbox option in Word until the current version, I think.

by jraph 7y ago

aesh2Xa1 7y ago

I'd strongly agree on the point that a dark theme in a media editor (or similar context) draws focus to the project and away from the controls. But I also believe that the UI experience should lean towards uniformity. Still, if you're an expert user of specific software perhaps your brain already manages the context switch. At least, though, maybe the WM could become context aware like Android's dark mode.

kccqzy 7y ago
That's exactly what I think dark mode should be; helping you focus on the content. Unfortunately too many people misunderstood this and started making apps where everything is dark. A word processor shouldn't have its page white-on-black. A news reader shouldn't display its contents on white-on-black.
- mroche 7y ago
  > A word processor shouldn't have its page white-on-black. A news reader shouldn't display its contents on white-on-black. I’m young with (I believe) very good eyesight and I physically can’t handle white-on-black styles, especially with text. And I mean #000 and 240-255. It literally burns and blurs my eyes. A dark gray paired with a light gray or off-white is much more pleasing and readable to me. I won’t discount those styles for text though, because at night it can help my eyes not melt out of my skull compared to black-on-white pages. And I have at times used Google Drive dark CSS themes while doc writing for extended late night sessions, and enabled some for GitLab and GitHub. As someone who has spent considerable time in CG DCCs (Digital Content Creation), I can confirm that dark themes are a godsend and help immensely (for me) on focusing on the content. It also has the added benefit of not “tainting” your color perception when working with imagery. Blackmagic Design was under fire for a bit because they revamped themes in Resolve and Fusion from a neutral gray to a subtly hinted blue-gray and it threw off color artists as it influenced their grading.
  - Doxin 7y ago
    From my experience most people who have trouble with black-on-white text simply have their monitor set too bright. White shouldn't be eye-searing, it should be roughly as bright as a piece of paper under the lighting on your desk.
- PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
  It should be what the user dictates. As a default, white on blue was found to be the best 30+ years ago, and was a checkbox option in Word until the current version, I think.