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"dark mode" is nice in theory, but the effect is completely broken as soon as anything non-dark slips through. for instance (on windows at least) the program "
by alphabet9000 4y ago
"dark mode" is nice in theory, but the effect is completely broken as soon as anything non-dark slips through.
for instance (on windows at least) the program "OBS" uses a dark theme; in a recent version, when you open up any settings window, the window is drawn for a few milliseconds as a bright white square, before the dark window 'renders' [0]. this sudden strobe of white light, without warning, is worse than if the interface was just bright all the time (imo)
this flashing light issue has also plagued chromium off and on for over 10 years. [1]
[0] https://i.imgur.com/P9rM5A3.gif https://i.imgur.com/P9rM5A3.gif
[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21798 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21798
- kitsunesoba 4y agoI don't know if it's a case of squeaky wheels or what (one set of users is more likely to complain than others) but I encounter "white flashes" with third party UI toolkits like you describe considerably less often under macOS than I do under Windows. Linux sits somewhere in between.