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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode?
Date: 22 Feb 2025 09:07:28 GMT
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John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> wrote or quoted:
>It seems like as soon as we started getting high-resolution bitmap
>screens, the common response was to mutter "thank God, finally!" and
>implement black text on white background.

  In the Smalltalk world, they say, "Don't mode me in!". 

  I don't want any externally imposed "modes," but rather the 
  ability to set the colors of my interface elements (text, title bar,
  background . . .) myself. This was still possible in Windows 98,
  but it seems to have been severely limited in newer Windows versions.