5 things you should know about dark mode
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my eye sight is not the best so i can't stand dark themes, especially since most dark themes have dark gray text on very dark background so i can barely see the text
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@mossman said in 5 things you should know about dark mode:
I absolutely HATED when Android went all-white with it's rubbish Material UI and all it's ugly, unclear, non-intuitive changes. The very opposite of the calming dark Android 4 interface which looked great on the OLED screen of my first Galaxy S. (I could read e-books on that phone with dark orange text on a perfect black background - these days I wake up in the middle of the night as my wife checks her phone and it's like a police searchlight!)
Having been in contact with tech since a kid in the 1970s, I was used to the old green-screen monochrome monitors and always preferred a light text on a dark background. Even the first computer I bought myself, an Amstrad CPC464, had yellow text on a dark blue background which looked lovely and was supposed to maximise contrast and reduce eye strain.
And I felt the same way with windowing GUIs - of the early ones I always preferred the darker coloured SunOS and other *NIX flavours over the (frankly crappy looking) Apple and Windows desktops.
I've also wished that more websites got away from the newsprint trope of black on white...
Try Night Mod Enabler (Google Play) or Night Mod (F-Droid)
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@Catweazle said in 5 things you should know about dark mode:
Try Night Mod Enabler (Google Play) or Night Mod (F-Droid)
There seem to be a lot of those... but most are just blue filters (not what I want).
The only one that looks like a change of UI theme is
Night Mode:Dark Mode Enabler [No Root] by KIBI TEAM - so I'll give that a try.
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@mossman said in 5 things you should know about dark mode:
@Catweazle said in 5 things you should know about dark mode:
Try Night Mod Enabler (Google Play) or Night Mod (F-Droid)
There seem to be a lot of those... but most are just blue filters (not what I want).
The only one that looks like a change of UI theme is
Night Mode:Dark Mode Enabler [No Root] by KIBI TEAM - so I'll give that a try.
I've also noticed, apart from that, although it works on Google play, it doesn't work on the web.But if I got a Dark Mod in Vivaldi through chrome: // flags, where there are options to activate the dark mode for UI and web, it works fine.
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What I would really like is dark mode mobile Web pages, as provided by the manufacturer's browser in Samsung Galaxy S6 and A40 (I have both). It works well 85% of the time, inverting text and button colours intelligently but maintaining the original colouring for photos.
Most of the time, I use Vivaldi Beta on mobile but in the evenings or night time I prefer the Samsung browser. If Vivaldi browser beta had dark mode not just for the UI but for Web pages too, I'd convert completely.
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Changing the flags, I have achieved just this, invert the colors of the web pages in Vivaldi "beta" and in Vivaldi desktop.
Works fine in both. Automatically use only Dark Mode if the page has a light background, if not, noWorks also in the Chrome Store.
Now I don't need extensions
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Then why don't you support a dark mode for addons? Umatrix and ublock origin could sure benefit from that, the way firefox does with shadowfox. White backgrounds are simply too abbrasive, especially in a dark room.
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@n8chavez For now, try Page Actions, Filter Sepia.
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My usage of PC is basically only in dark mode.
While I'm using the computer, a dark screen with white text seems less strain for my eyes (although, white background with black text still more readable).
BTW, I recommend two extensions for making web pages darker.- Dark Reader: Turn any page darker, although, is possible finding cases where it doesn't work well, such as Wikipedia where it's logo colors is inverted.
- Stylus: Allows you to install custom themes in any page. Themes which aren't limited to switch pages colors, but also can change the layout.
In pages which I access frequently, that Dark Reader doesn't work well, I try finding a Stylus style for it.
Currently, I'm using it on Google services, WhatsApp Web, SoundCloud (which also improved the layout) and a few others that works just as "Custom CSS fixes" for some pages.
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For me dark mode has always been about putting the content first and letting the controls and interface go into the background. It is about focusing on the main content without bothering about the interface quirks and buttons and menus. On Photoshop, or browsers, dark mode is a boon. You can focus on the website content instead of looking at the interface. My operating system is also in dark mode for the same reason.
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When Serif's Affinity Designer was first introduced in 2014, there was only a dark UI. I found it unusable, and this Adobe Illustrator user signed up just to request a lighter UI.
UI designers seem to be under the misapprehension that having dark user interfaces is helpful because the tools 'get out of the way' and don't distract from the content. In fact, that's not true (or, at least, it's missing the point). The key thing is contrast: for ideal working conditions, every part of the screen that contains active content (i.e. artwork and tools) should be of a similar brightness to the overall intensity of the artwork.
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Frankly it amazes me that Adobe has got this wrong in recent times. It seems to be insisting on dark user interfaces itself, by default, which is barmy. But the fact that Adobe's started doing this doesn't mean that other developers should blindly follow its lead. Dark user interfaces may look cool, but they're actually a really bad idea, especially if enforced. Please, developers, THINK about such things! Take design decisions for the right reasons, rather than just to follow the current trend. -
Jak dla mnie tryb ciemny lepszy poniewaz nie meczy oczu jak równiez jest bardziej czytelny i wyrazny ,niestety na bialym wszystko sie zlewa
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Why are the forums suddenly blue instead of red?!?
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During the eighties and nineties, apart from working on my colour C64 and C128, most of my computer work was done at the DOS/Command prompt. Who would have thought that I was so trendy, working almost exclusively in "dark mode" even back then! LOL!
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@dbouley ,yes, but it could also be configured with ANSI codes in the promt.
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@Pesala I'm not referring to an extension that alters webpages for a "dark mode." For that I use Dark Background Light Text I meant that the extensions themselves should have a dark theme included, or be able to make use of the dark native Vivaldi theme.
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@NSSynapse I find your comment about the reasons for monitor default brightness settings very interesting. About a year ago I needed a new TV. When I first started watching it, I found my eyes were getting very tired and I was getting headaches. I went into the settings and found adjusting "power saving" to maximum (which dims the screen significantly) was necessary to alleviate the problem. Now I know why! Sony wanted their TV to stand out in the showroom!
I also always have the brightness on my desktop monitors and laptop screens set to minimum or near-minimum.