<div>I was thinking of use a dark themes in darker rooms like studios and home entertainment.</div> <div>I agree dark themes in rooms with normal lighting are harder on eyes, but when the room is darker, lighter themes can be very bright and also hurt the eyes.  </div> <div>On 11/28/07, Who <<a href="mailto:mailforwho@googlemail.com">mailforwho@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Otoh, Jimmac points out he is doing it for graphics work, and that is why he works with a dark theme. Some of the other recent posts on <a href="http://planet.gnome.org">planet.gnome.org</a> have pointed out that after the initial 'dark theme honeymoon' they found dark themes to be more stressful on the eyes than light ones - also power consumption is potentially higher for LCDs doing dark themes. One day I'll do some kind of benchmark, perhaps... I agree, it would be cool, but I just wanted to throw in a word of caution :) Who On Nov 28, 2007 1:24 AM, Corey Woodworth < <a href="mailto:coreywoodworth@gmail.com">coreywoodworth@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Dark Themes have come up in discussion here, but also a little bit on Planet > Gnome recently. Jimmac, in this post: <a href="http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=395"> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=395</a> > is very pro dark themes. But he also suggests that vanilla Gnome should ship > withe default dark theme so that developers could see the issues of dark > themes. Maybe shipping a dark theme in Hardy wouldn't be a bad idea after > all. I'm running a dark theme on my Xubuntu laptop at the moment and I'm > liking it more and more as I use it. Only Epiphany and Firefox are giving me > troubles with it, but they can most all be fixed with custom default > stylesheets, a feature both browsers support. > > Anyway, I just wanted to bring dark themes up again since even Jimmac is for > the idea, although in another context. And they are the best lookin' ones =) > > Corey > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art</a> > > -- ubuntu-art mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art</a> </blockquote></div> -- Steven Wallace Monoaxe <a href="http://www.monoaxe.com">www.monoaxe.com</a>