Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode?
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:36:37 +0300
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 29
Message-ID: <20250221183637.54994a575ef4ec53c42edbb3@g{oogle}mail.com>
References: <vp84uu$30gj4$1@dont-email.me>
	<67b7af76@news.ausics.net>
	<86seo8p1sq.fsf@building-m.net>
	<20250221124118.6fb8575152fd45d80d8d7de6@g{oogle}mail.com>
	<vpa3qc$3e9be$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:36:37 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5a3713302bb2f50f20f934d1e8b1d48c";
	logging-data="3616350"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/bLXjYemUo350JIe+D4X0dOn75oAbFSiw="
Cancel-Lock: sha1:E6ZCgJqkligAwCSJ16HJ9OeiIrI=
X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32)
Bytes: 2273

Rich to Anton Shepelev:

> > whereas dark mode requires that most of the screen be
> > dark, which means window title bars and backgrounds
> > cannot be so varied and discernible.
>
> The GUI artists likely took advantage of this fact, but
> this fact was not likely 'why' they went "light mode"
> coloring.

No artist should ever be put in charge of interface design,
which is the work for an interface engineer, whereas an artist
my be helping him with menial work, advice on color harmony,
&c.

> That was much more likely so that the virtual "desktop"
> they were creating would more closely resemble a real
> world desk that they were (at the time) telling everyone
> their system resembled, so it would be "soo easy" for
> everyone to immediately begin using it with no training
> needed (or so they thought).

Yes, low entry threshold was the thing.  The new thing is a
negative entry threshhold, a learning curve turned into the
slipeery slope into the slough of incompetence.

-- 
()  ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail
/\  www.asciiribbon.org   -- against proprietary attachments