On 01/26/2016 10:17 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 5:09:52 PM UTC-5, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > You're just using "reasonable" to mean "has the color scheme I like." > > > That black text on white background is the most legible color scheme is > an empirical fact.
It's not an empirical fact but I'm almost certain you know that. The thing you actually observe from experiment is that more people find light-on-dark a little bit more legible than dark-on-light. It is an empirical fact that some people prefer dark-on-light. And the whole thing is irrelevant when the user can choose which one he prefers. The suggestion that we should only support more-legible-on-average terminals is also bizarre. You wouldn't manufacture gloves that only work with an average number of fingers, especially if you had an alternative that worked for everybody (like we do). That definition of "reasonable" doesn't hold up to reality. The UNIX terminal -- the thing that terminal emulators emulate -- is light-on-dark, and many terminal emulators look just like it until you configure them otherwise. Distributions are shipping terminals with light-on-dark themes. People constantly ask how to change the sage color scheme. You can only throw out so much "bad" evidence before you have to question the definition. Every time one of these people with unreasonable taste tries sage and can't read what it says -- if he finds the mailing lists page, and figures out that sage-support is the right one, and manages to sign up, and verifies his email address, and then posts to the list, and then waits a day or two for me to check my email and respond -- I'll let him know how to make sage display text in his terminal, and he can finally get started. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
