Re: Me being Picky: A few minor points

[Stanisław Pitucha <viraptor gmail com>]

On 15.01.2010 21:04, Eric Raslich wrote:
> 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.

Right. And wrong. There are so many papers written about colours and
colour-mood association that there shouldn't be any problems in showing
the effects. For example start here (chosen randomly):
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84.2852&rep=rep1&type=pdf
and follow the references. Sure - some people will prefer it black, some
white and some pink. But neither of them is a "safe choice" and there
exists a typical colour-mood correlation in a big enough group. If GS is
designed for everyone, then it should be as safe as possible by default
and can do whatever crazy things are possible via customisation.

> Black is a lot easier on the 
> eyes when combined to with lighter text, and that's a proven fact.

And so are other colours in right combinations. Also white on black is
not easier than white on grey, or grey on black on an usual screen, so
it's kind of hard to talk about black + something undefined.

I agree about the second point of the main post of course.