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It is comical we are getting excited about a bunch of CSS files and other assets. As others have pointed out: Desktop apps never had this problem and decent op

by beders 7y ago

It is comical we are getting excited about a bunch of CSS files and other assets. As others have pointed out: Desktop apps never had this problem and decent operating systems gave you much more freedom to adjust the color style to your liking. Now we have half-assed solutions running in a hypertext display engine. Amazing! ;)

noahtallen 7y ago
IIRC, Windows and macOS only offered built in dark mode in the system UI components until the last year or two, and definitely don’t offer much color customization freedom... except for the global highlight or accent color
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- userbinator 7y ago
  It used to be far more customisable for Windows; this is Windows 2.03: https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/win203-1-1.png https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi... 3.11: https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/win31-1-2.png https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi... 95: https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/win95-1-2.png https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi... ...and that dialog remained almost unchanged up until Windows 7: https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers_new_2/windows-7-settings-border-color.png https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers_new_2/windows-7-s... Unfortunately, after Win7 it was removed, and they basically took away customisation completely in Win10.
  - noisem4ker 7y ago
    What's left of customization is the choice of an "accent color", plus light and dark modes.
    - jussij 7y ago
      Except this new Windows light and dark mode option only changes the colors on a handful of applications, meaning most Win32 apps then look out of place. Whereas that older style of Windows color configuration would automatically adjust each and every well behaved Win32 application.
- ken 7y ago
  Mac OS had themes (briefly) back in 1998 [1]. Linux (GTK+ and Qt) still do. Windows has supported custom fonts/colors since at least 1992, even if the result wasn't always tasteful [2]. [1]: https://www.blakespot.com/mac/Images/Gallerypix/drawing2.jpg https://www.blakespot.com/mac/Images/Gallerypix/drawing2.jpg [2]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-ho...
  - PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
    The Windows color scheme editor is long gone. Don't know if it was Vista or 7 when it disappeared. Windows 10 is a shitshow.
grecy 7y ago
> It is comical we are getting excited about a bunch of CSS files and other assets Especially on a site like stack overflow when there are literally 10,000 other things they need to improve that would be appreciated more.
- JadeNB 7y ago
  That's the SO way, though—there's so much they need to fix and won't or can't, that they need to distract from their user-hostility by making a fuss over whatever small user-positive things they do do.
d0mine 7y ago
Don't laugh, it has real consequences on health: "black text on white paper heavily overstimulated retinal OFF pathways. Conversely, white text on black paper overstimulated ON pathways." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598 I have good experience using the theme-changer package in emacs which turns dark theme after sunset automatically.

by beders 7y ago

noahtallen 7y ago

IIRC, Windows and macOS only offered built in dark mode in the system UI components until the last year or two, and definitely don’t offer much color customization freedom... except for the global highlight or accent color

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userbinator 7y ago
It used to be far more customisable for Windows; this is Windows 2.03: https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/win203-1-1.png https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi... 3.11: https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/win31-1-2.png https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi... 95: https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/win95-1-2.png https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi... ...and that dialog remained almost unchanged up until Windows 7: https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers_new_2/windows-7-settings-border-color.png https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers_new_2/windows-7-s... Unfortunately, after Win7 it was removed, and they basically took away customisation completely in Win10.
- noisem4ker 7y ago
  What's left of customization is the choice of an "accent color", plus light and dark modes.
  - jussij 7y ago
    Except this new Windows light and dark mode option only changes the colors on a handful of applications, meaning most Win32 apps then look out of place. Whereas that older style of Windows color configuration would automatically adjust each and every well behaved Win32 application.
ken 7y ago
Mac OS had themes (briefly) back in 1998 [1]. Linux (GTK+ and Qt) still do. Windows has supported custom fonts/colors since at least 1992, even if the result wasn't always tasteful [2]. [1]: https://www.blakespot.com/mac/Images/Gallerypix/drawing2.jpg https://www.blakespot.com/mac/Images/Gallerypix/drawing2.jpg [2]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-ho...
- PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
  The Windows color scheme editor is long gone. Don't know if it was Vista or 7 when it disappeared. Windows 10 is a shitshow.

grecy 7y ago

> It is comical we are getting excited about a bunch of CSS files and other assets Especially on a site like stack overflow when there are literally 10,000 other things they need to improve that would be appreciated more.

JadeNB 7y ago
That's the SO way, though—there's so much they need to fix and won't or can't, that they need to distract from their user-hostility by making a fuss over whatever small user-positive things they do do.

d0mine 7y ago

Don't laugh, it has real consequences on health: "black text on white paper heavily overstimulated retinal OFF pathways. Conversely, white text on black paper overstimulated ON pathways." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598 I have good experience using the theme-changer package in emacs which turns dark theme after sunset automatically.