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lomereiter | 2 years ago

Glad to see usability improvements here, but I won't be using it until there's a light theme (asking an application to respect the OS theme is apparently too much these days).

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shaan7|2 years ago

I had to hard facepalm reading the other replies to this. There are people suffering from things like Astigmatism (myself included) who have an extremely hard time, including headaches, using dark themes. People really need to be a bit more empathetic.

Also, as the OP pointed out, people somehow get angry when all you asked is for an app to follow the system's theme. It has been such a huge regression.

EDIT: typos and clarity

mh-|2 years ago

> Astigmatism

Wait, is this why I've stopped liking dark mode? I was diagnosed with astigmatism a few years ago. Never connected the two until now.

I find it physically unpleasant to look at during daylight hours, in a way I can't explain to my coworkers.

least|2 years ago

> Also, as the OP pointed out, people somehow get angry when all you asked is for an app to follow the system's theme. It has been such a huge regression.

Was there a time when Podman Desktop supported a light mode? You could change the CSS yourself, which given you only need a light mode, would be pretty trivial.

Please keep in mind that dark themes were introduced as an accessibility feature as well, but not every project can or will prioritize it.

eikenberry|2 years ago

Welcome to the club. So many things still don't support a dark theme either. Why aren't dark/light modes standard these days? Super annoying to have to hide a bunch of light mode windows when I'm in a meeting as they reflect brightly off my glasses.

ravenstine|2 years ago

1997: Now you can completely customize the window UI with any colors you like!

2023: We have no plans to have our UI not blind you past 8pm.

diarrhea|2 years ago

A very Hacker-News complaint, if I’ve ever seen one.

smilingemoji|2 years ago

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pests|2 years ago

Dark mode causes more issues than light mode for a lot of conditions. Providing only a darkmode is worse than providing only a light mode, IMO.

lagniappe|2 years ago

    lynx gopher://hngopher.com

ruricolist|2 years ago

The Dark Reader browser extension works for HN.