Dne 15.1.2010 22:04:23 napsal Eric Raslich: > I think you're making a big deal about something that, in the end, comes > down to personal taste. While it has been a month or so since I used the > gnome shell exclusively, the black color was really appealing to me. To > say that it needs to start with a "much nicer" default look is saying > that the look now is bad (or... mean?) and I think that's a little > unfair. Black is a lot easier on the eyes when combined to with lighter > text, and that's a proven fact. Not that I'm against other combinations > by any means, but I think it's a little off to say that the default look > is bad as it is.
It is a big deal. Yes, black is appealing and yes, it looks cool, at least when you see it for the first time. It may as well be easier on the eyes. I'm not sure. But it's not a colour to look at for several hours a day. As long as it's just the overlay, it's not _as_ critical (still I think it's enough to ruin your day), but we can expect a matching GTK theme soon and whatever else. We can argue that it can be changed, but defaults _are_ important. It might not be an overestimate if I say a third of the users will just keep the default look. And these are the users we should care about and feel responsible for. I was using a complete light-on-dark theme myself. For several years. And though I don't know the psychological background - mind, I'm just a child - one thing I know for sure: it was destroying. Many people cannot understand that at all - it rather depends on how sensitive you are. And even if it affects you, it's not what you notice that is the worst of all. It doesn't make you feel strangely bad, it merely changes the way you feel when you don't feel anything special, just the normal, neutral, as a programmer I would say "default", feeling. It's not an overstatement to say that with your desktop, the whole world gets a different colour (ever tried to look through several differently-tint glasses?) All your feelings will be slighly flavoured with that un-name-able darkish thing. You get less optimistic, active, willing to make a change, to do something. Whatever. You also often get moody and a bit harder on other people than you'd like. It's extremely slight differences, yet they do a lot in the whole image of your life. You get the idea that something was wrong only when after this black period is over. Then, when you look back, you wouldn't be able to understand what that eerie time was doing in your memory. Like getting up into a gloomy day for several months --- and then suddenly seeing the rays of sunshine. You won't want to get back to the darkness afterwards. That's just my story to say it's not only a psychologists' hassle. Black is not a colour for people who want to dance with joy every morning. And we all want to be such people, right? Sincere salutations, Filip Štědronský Czech Republic -- ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— http://regnarg.matfyz.cz ☼ Není důležité milovat fajn člověka, je důležité, aby vám spolu bylo fajn _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
