On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:51 AM, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree 100% with you guys and I will add another factor, the GUI at large looks much more modern with the dark theme. The reason being the fact that the GUI uses flat colors, White as flat color is not really that good, because it over-saturates all other colors around it. With the dark theme now all colors stand out and the GUI is not so much in your face, making text stand out more and other gui elements.
I don't disagree with a white theme, but you need to have more contrast with other colors to make things more clear. As it is the GUI is very much over-saturated.
This is the thing running on my linux box now, using the updated PharoDawnTheme from Sebastian. Can't go back. [image: Inline image 1] For an added touch, opening the File Browser and picking up a jpg file, right clicking and selection "add as background" adds a pretty cool touch too. As in https://www.google.be/search?q=giger+alien Phil
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymchuk@me.com>wrote:
I want to join and also say that Dark theme is amazing. Despite the fact that it looks nice, it also does good for my eyes. At work Iâm using apple cinema display (the older one which is LCD), and white colours on it are too intensive for my eyes, but with dark theme everything is cool.
Thank you once more Esteban, I also champion it to be the part of Pharo
Uko
On 14 May 2014, at 10:39, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
Hi,
I have been using the new Pharo 3 Dark Theme since it was announced on May 1st. In my specific case, I am using the FreeType fonts Open Sans Regular 11 and Source Code Pro Regular 11 on a MacBookAir, both on the 13 inch 1440x900 built in screen and on a 23 inch 1920x1024 external monitor.
Every day there is a moment that I think: this looks so nice, this is so pleasant to use. Really Esteban, I don't know how you did it, but the color palette is really well chosen, plain beautiful. Let's make this either a permanent part of Pharo or an easy to load extension, real soon.
Thank you !
Sven
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