Dark mode
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
I'm with you, really terrible. I feel like there's a lot I don't see in dark mode because not all shapes and colors are converted to some other color equally well.
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Depends on the context. Some web pages I'm just used to a light background. But, for many, many things it's all about dark mode. It's so much easier on the eyes. Stuff like VS Code, Sublime, my phone, Windows, and so on I'll never go back. I still keep Light Mode in MS Word though because IMO they did a poor job on the dark theme.
Jeremy Falcon
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
I despise it, but then I only run into it when I'm using AutoCAD. At least it can be turned off, but it isn't easy finding the place to do so.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
In my case, it's like with the truth law :)
Quote:
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
I am at stage 3, as I like to use it for all my coding. To this degree that coding on white pages feels weird :). It produces really less strain in the eyes. But doing any "paper work" like writing in Word, feels weird with black paper :), that's why I prefer normal writing on white background. Therefore, in my case - it depends (i.d. Jeremy) ...
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Depends on the context. Some web pages I'm just used to a light background. But, for many, many things it's all about dark mode. It's so much easier on the eyes. Stuff like VS Code, Sublime, my phone, Windows, and so on I'll never go back. I still keep Light Mode in MS Word though because IMO they did a poor job on the dark theme.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I still keep Light Mode in MS Word though because IMO they did a poor job on the dark theme.
No! MS implementing something poorly? Inconceivable! 😱 /s
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Who is the idiot who designed dark mode without a way to indicate which window has active focus by highlighting the title bar somehow? Shit - that was done way back in Win 3.1 or earlier, wasn't it? Other than that, and many dark mode themes not having enough contrast by using dark text, it is OK by me.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I still keep Light Mode in MS Word though because IMO they did a poor job on the dark theme.
No! MS implementing something poorly? Inconceivable! 😱 /s
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Jeremy Falcon
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
While it's not my preference from a visual stand-point, I now have it activated on both my phone and this laptop for the same reason - battery life. LCDs use the least power on white pixels, since you aren't powering the shutter which obscures the backlight. OLEDs use the least power on a black pixel, since you aren't powering the LED which makes the light.
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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I am very light sensitive these days. I really need to stop reading when I go to bed. I'm an exceptionally light sleeper and very sensitive to ambient light changes. I refuse to bring my phone into the bedroom, see note below, but sometimes my MIL will text or accidentally text my wife (she's 65% into full blown dementia) and if that phone lights up, I'm screwed. I've been up since 3am today, because it's useless to try to go back to sleep. Anyway, so today I've learned in Opera (browser of choice) that dark mode is website dependent. Well, that's elephanting irrritating. Weirder - the popups from code project are in dark mode. As I type this, not in dark mode.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
charlieg wrote:
Anyway, so today I've learned in Opera (browser of choice) that dark mode is website dependent. Well, that's elephanting irrritating.
Does CodeProject have a Dark Mode? Anyway, it's really disconcerting when, after working an a Dark Mode IDE for some hours, you need to look something up and the the site has a put white (#FFFFFF) background! :)
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
As jsc42 points out above, we've gone full circle. However, there's a good reason we abandoned green text on black backgrounds - unless you crank the brightness all the way up, there just isn't enough contrast. OTOH, those who claim a bright background gives them a headache or makes their eyes burn are simply running their monitors with the brightness set way, WAY too high (showroom setting). The first thing I do when I get a new monitor is reduce the brightness; between the 3 monitors I have on my desk, the one with the highest brightness level (an actual TV) is set at 50% (contrast is at 75%). The other two (monitors) are set at 0 (contrast at 75% on one, and 40% for the other). My code windows in VS are using a light gray background, not pure white. But everything else is still at its default setting. Dark mode is just unreadable to me (especially on a bright and sunny day, with a lot of ambient light), but then, I suspect I'd have to crank the brightness all the way back up, and I never felt like d*cking around back-and-forth between settings. Plus, on a bright day, with a dark background, the dust on my monitor tends to be more visible than the text. :-)
