[ubuntu-art] Contrast problems with dark themes - was: murrine in intrepid

[SzerencseFia]

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> A potential problem with a dark theme is that the light (white)
> content areas will be quite bright compared to the chrome/ui. Taking
> your eyes off of something very light and focusing on something very
> dark will require a moment for the eyes to adjust. (think of walking
> from a sunny area into a dark room) This may need some good user
> testing.
> 
> Also testers should probably look at this with their screen's
> brightness at different levels. When I unplug my laptop my screen's
> brightness decreases to 50 - 60% to save power. A low contrast theme
> will be very hard to see in that condition.
> 

These are definitely points with dark colour based themes. The best result so far was in my
experience the grey colour usage instead of white for backgrounds of entry, document, etc. fields.
It needs to be taken into account that grey background will be fine if the fonts are black or
something dark in general and in fact in entry, document, etc. fields.
(see i.e. http://szerencsefia.webs.com/luxproject.htm)

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Cheers,
Erno
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