Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode?

From	Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com>
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Subject	Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode?
Date	2025-02-21 18:28 +0300
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Rich:

> To get a good idea why 'light mode' came about you have to
> remember how the first GUI's were 'advertised'.  As a
> "desktop" -- with most of the UI elements styled to
> resemble a real world physical desktop (anyone remember
> apple's 'waste basket' that looked like a typical office
> desk side waste basket).
>
> And at the time, what were "real world desks" covered in?
> Loads of sheets of paper.
>
> And what 'color' were most of those sheets of paper?  With
> rare exception, they were white paper with black
> typewriter ink for the text (or black or blue ink for
> handwritten paper).

It is a very plausible conjecture.  If it is true, those
early desktop GUIs were the progenitors of the modern
abomination known as material design, and the entire field
of UX (aka usee exploitation, a backformation by xwindows).
Using concepts from everyday life in the physical world is
not a bad idea per se, the actual vice is trying to apply
them literally rather than in a more abstract manner as
behooves the symbolic system that the computer is.

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What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-20 20:57 +0000
  Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-02-21 08:40 +1000
    Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-21 00:16 +0000
      Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-02-21 18:29 +1000
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-21 21:24 +0000
          Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-02-22 08:57 +1000
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-21 23:38 +0000
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-02-22 16:07 +0000
              Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-02-22 17:04 +0042
      Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? SH <i.love@spam.com> - 2025-02-21 10:36 +0000
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-21 21:20 +0000
    Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> - 2025-02-21 00:41 +0000
      Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-02-21 12:41 +0300
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-02-21 14:49 +0000
          Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-02-21 18:28 +0300
          Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-02-21 18:36 +0300
      Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-02-22 17:19 +0300
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-02-22 19:10 +0000
          Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-22 21:26 +0000
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-02-23 02:10 +0000
              Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-23 09:42 +0000
  Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-02-21 00:38 +0000
    Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-21 01:25 +0000
  Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-20 23:28 -0300
    Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-02-21 12:23 +0000
      Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-02-21 18:07 +0300
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-02-21 18:13 +0300
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-02-21 15:35 +0000
          Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-02-21 18:41 +0300
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-02-21 15:48 +0000
              Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-02-22 17:10 +0300
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-21 15:58 +0000
              Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-02-21 19:04 +0300
          Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-02-22 05:19 -0400
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-02-22 11:00 +0000
              Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-02-22 17:03 +0300
                Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-02-22 15:55 +0000
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-22 21:27 +0000
              Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-02-23 03:08 -0400
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2025-02-21 17:21 +0000
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-21 23:42 +0000
      Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-02-22 17:15 +0300
      Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-23 23:32 -0300
  Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-02-21 12:35 +0300
    Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-21 23:40 +0000
      Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-02-22 16:44 +0300
        Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-22 22:05 +0000
          Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-02-25 14:11 +0300
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-02-25 16:15 +0000
            Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-25 20:34 +0000
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