Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-04-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
This as either delayed by S.F. or stuck in my spam proxy since Feb 28th. I just received today, thus reply way late. On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:54:53 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:37:58 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." > said: > > > For those that voted for KD

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-28 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 05:47:44 + Stephen Houston wrote: > Doh. Your screenshots still show light backgrounds, and from your one > reddit poll there are tons that say the opposite and research to back > it. I assume you did not actually look at poll results, which requires you to vote to see th

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-27 Thread Stephen Houston
Doh. Your screenshots still show light backgrounds, and from your one reddit poll there are tons that say the opposite and research to back it. There is no need as I said to keep flaming this thread. We found a solution that works for us and will satisfy all and we are working on it. On Tue, Feb

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-27 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:54:23 + Stephen Houston wrote: > None of which are default, as I said. Open windows explorer. Is it > dark? Open finder is it dark? Dark bars And titlebars don't mean it's > a dark theme. As I said. Defaults are always light. That is the default windows 10, and a scree

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-27 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:41:44 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri said: > I'd also add another bit to this: > > - spacing > > E themes are very constrained, everything is tight, fonts are small by > default... okay, this used to help when we used 640x480 desktops, but > nowadays there is plenty of s

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-27 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:37:58 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." said: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:54:23 + > Stephen Houston wrote: > > > None of which are default, as I said. Open windows explorer. Is it > > dark? Open finder is it dark? Dark bars And titlebars don't mean it's > > a dark theme. As

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-27 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:54:23 + Stephen Houston wrote: > None of which are default, as I said. Open windows explorer. Is it > dark? Open finder is it dark? Dark bars And titlebars don't mean it's > a dark theme. As I said. Defaults are always light. That is the default windows 10, and a scree

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-27 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:54:23 + Stephen Houston wrote: > None of which are default, as I said. Open windows explorer. Is it > dark? Open finder is it dark? Dark bars And titlebars don't mean it's > a dark theme. As I said. Defaults are always light. That is the default windows 10, and a scree

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-27 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
I'd also add another bit to this: - spacing E themes are very constrained, everything is tight, fonts are small by default... okay, this used to help when we used 640x480 desktops, but nowadays there is plenty of space and a bit more of padding around elements (ie: menu) and larger fonts by defa

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-21 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:46:27 + Stephen Houston wrote: > Everything you sent is still dark text on light backgrounds in the > windows. Again. Bars/titlebars/menus irrelevenent. Try again. Not really Here are popular themes for Cinnamon, most are dark. I see 2-3 light. https://cinnamon-spices

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-21 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:51:13 + Stephen Houston wrote: > Again we are talking about default out of the box themes not custom > themes that are popular. Most of Cinnamon was dark, that maybe changing. It was Matte that was the light UI for Mint. They may have changed other aspects. But that m

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-21 Thread Stephen Houston
Again we are talking about default out of the box themes not custom themes that are popular. Also statistically based on research. Dark text on light backgrounds is preferred and easier read. It is irrelevant at this point to continue this argument. The decision has been made to offer both styles o

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-21 Thread Stephen Houston
Everything you sent is still dark text on light backgrounds in the windows. Again. Bars/titlebars/menus irrelevenent. Try again. On Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 10:44 AM William L. Thomson Jr. < wlt...@obsidian-studios.com> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:54:23 + > Stephen Houston wrote: > > > None of

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-21 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:54:23 + Stephen Houston wrote: > None of which are default, as I said. Open windows explorer. Is it > dark? Open finder is it dark? Dark bars And titlebars don't mean it's > a dark theme. As I said. Defaults are always light. That is the default windows 10, and a scree

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-18 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:29:01 + Stephen Houston said: all my responses are on the ticket. > I created a phab ticket for those who are going to tldr: > https://phab.enlightenment.org/T6708 > > Please respond and help us address this issue on Phab. I'm sending the > mail to bring attention to

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-18 Thread Stephen Houston
None of which are default, as I said. Open windows explorer. Is it dark? Open finder is it dark? Dark bars And titlebars don't mean it's a dark theme. As I said. Defaults are always light. On Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 1:50 PM William L. Thomson Jr. < wlt...@obsidian-studios.com> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb

Re: [E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-18 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:29:01 + Stephen Houston wrote: > Look around and > literalliy no one ships with a dark theme. Windows, No one? I guess no one runs Windows 10... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10#/media/File:Windows_10_(version_1709).png https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+10&t=ffa

[E-devel] Theme MUST be addressed

2018-02-18 Thread Stephen Houston
I created a phab ticket for those who are going to tldr: https://phab.enlightenment.org/T6708 Please respond and help us address this issue on Phab. I'm sending the mail to bring attention to those who aren't checking phab or didn't get tagged in the ticket. This is the summary of the issue: We