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@ninjapants
Haha that's cool. It's very personal.
Which is why I'm all the more convinced that real customization options are more important than just one out-of-the-box dark theme. -
I use the dark theme and make my window semi-transparent to allow my pretty butterfly nebula background show through. I also use a teal sidebar; it's quite pretty.
It would be better, though, if their dark window color was actually black, because the grey they use just lowers the saturation and contrast of my background, and makes it noticeably bleh. -
@bittersweet that remembers me W10 dark mode. Literally it's background: #000000; and that's it
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This morning:
SLACK HAS A DARK THEME! ALL GLORY TO THE AMAZING SLACK TEAM! SLACK FOR PRESIDENT!
This afternoon:
OH GOD THIS THEME MAKES ME WANT TO SCOOP THE EYES OUT OF MY SOCKETS THE FONT LOOKS UGLIER THAN THE PILE OF SKINFAT I SCRAPED OFF MY MOUSE ITS AWFUL I NEED HUGS SEND HELP
Thanks, companies, for trying, I guess.
I love dark themes, but the ones provided are often even worse than the light themes.
They go overboard with extreme black/white contrasts, pick a super weird hue of puke-gray, or certain elements are unreadable.
So, please, instead of wasting the time of your designers on something that's clearly too difficult for them.... how about just making it easy to create community themes for your app?
Especially if it's an electron app, how hard is it to add a config option to import a CSS file, and provide one template as an example?
rant