Re: [Gimp-user] Dark Theme for GIMP?

[Dominik Tabisz <d kupka1 gmail com>]

If You accept making this thread slightly more offtopic i would
appreciate any links to this studies on workplace ergonomics from
1960s.

Color of our environment affect colors in graphics we do. Any
knowledge that help to use this fact consciously reduce need for trial
and error.


Dominik

2013/5/11, Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>:
> On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 20:29 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote:
>
> > Ok. I remembered for instance years ago, when everybody started to
> > make their personal website with broken html, most were dark because
> > it seemed cooler. Then it was told that dark websites are harder to
> > use/read and finally are not that good for the eyes. And indeed now
> > nearly all big websites use light colors.
>
> The big search engines started to penalise dark sites, so it was a money
> issue.
>
> The reason was that people would set the background to black in a
> paragraph or div element near the bottom of the page and have a whole
> bunch of search engine spam keywords in black on a black background that
> didn't show up.
>
> The other problem was that before CSS was widely implemented you
> couldon't style forms very well, so the input fields would tend to end
> up white on a white background.
>
> Actually if you use the "evolution" mail program you may still run into
> this with gtk styles in gnome 2, and also if you have a dark gtk theme
> you'll find logging in to ebay trickier than before.
>
> In general, though, dark backgrounds are good for image processing. For
> text, for years ASCII terminals were made with green text on a black
> background to reduce eye fatigue - or possibly because it was cheaper,
> I'm not sure ;)
>
> A lot of it will depend on your immediate environment, the brightness
> and contrast of your screen, viewing distance, and the amount of blood
> getting to your brain (drink water to help regulate blood pressure; take
> off shoes; sit upright; exercise...)
>
> Liam
>
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Dominik Tabisz