[ubuntu-studio-devel] Agenda for 2018-05-05

[erich at ericheickmeyer.com]

>On May 5, 2018 8:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 May 2018 07:25:16 -0700, erich at ericheickmeyer.com wrote:
>> > New theme (something with a dark variant)?
>> 
>> Maintaining a theme that works good for all apps is very hard. I've 
>> never seen a dark theme that really worked and was well maintained.
>
>I'm not sure how relevant this still is, but I'd also highly advise against using a dark theme as default. It's great if there's a dark variant available for those that want to use it (like myself, using Blackbird currently), but it's not the best choice to make it the standard. 
>
>I've also had some trouble making the dark theme work everywhere, some programs will display input fields dark and not change the text colour, giving you black text on a dark grey background and other small issues like that. 
>
>However, the most important consideration is that a majority of users find dark text on bright backgrounds easier to read. A bright background forces the
ye to focus and makes edge recognition easier, some people even have serious trouble reading bright text on dark backgrounds, because they experience a glow effect, making the letters fade into each other. There are some studies on this somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look them up right now, they should >be relatively easy to find, though. 

Hi Thomas! We missed you yesterday!

I think the idea is /not/ to make a dark theme the default, but to have a dark /variant/ of the theme, meaning it has a dark version as well as a light version (which would be the default). I want to make sure everyone who reads this understands that a dark theme will likely not be the default, but an option. :)


Erich
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