walt posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:51:53 -0700:
>> Before that, the biggest problem I had was that I have an apparently >> unusual color scheme -- light text on a dark background, and I couldn't >> read some of the default-colored content... > > I hate light text on dark background because I can never read it -- and > suspect it's because I'm red-green color-blind. Maybe you are too? I think you reversed the sense in which I intended to post. I don't like dark text on a light background, preferring light text on a dark background. And I'm not R/G colorblind (tho I'm familiar with the phenomenon as my uncle is), so it doesn't conflict with your theory. Actually, from my observations it has more to do with the fact that I tend to like high to extreme resolutions. I can and do run my monitors at higher resolutions than they were intended, with the trade-off being refresh frequency -- as low as 60 Hz or even slightly lower (57 Hz is about the limit of my toleration, 55 is too low to be tolerable even for me), with custom xorg.conf modelines forcing the monitor into higher resolutions at lower refresh frequencies, barely within or at times exceeding the recommended monitor dot-clock ratings. What I've found is that the lighter the overall monitor image, the more sensitive I am to refresh rates. I expect most others will find the same thing, altho each person will have their own limits. With a dark background, light text, the overall image is darker and therefore more tolerable at lower refresh rates. As I said, I can tolerate such an image down to ~57 Hz. OTOH, a light background with dark text is an overall brighter image, and my refresh rate tolerance correspondingly lower -- somewhat /above/ 60 Hz, while remaining below 70 Hz (generally 63-67 Hz). I can't drive the extreme resolutions I tend to like at those frequencies as it's too far out of monitor dot-clock range and the picture begins to turn weird colors, skew, and eventually scramble, as it gets further beyond the range the monitor can handle. A pleasant bonus is the fact that darker monitor images save energy, and don't wear out the phosphors on the monitor as fast, so as long as the extra stress on the electronics due to the over-spec dotclock doesn't eventually fry something, the monitor will dim at a slower than normal rate and thus be usable for many more years than it would otherwise. Of course, I'd do it even if the effect were the reverse (and the extra stress on the driving electronics may indeed ultimately be the deciding factor), but it's a nice bonus that I'll be happy to take, since it's there. ... BTW, a couple screen shots illustrating my background color choice, and the lack of readability it caused in conflict with PAN's default color choices, are still posted. This one illustrates the default colors in pan 0.93 (28.7 KByte, 712x703 px) http://members.cox.net/pu61ic.1inux.dunc4n/pix/screenshots/pan93.png Here's how it looks when I can set the quote, sig, and URL colors. 0.14.2.91 (34.0 KByte, 820x729 px, my 0.94 prefs, now that they are back in the color prefs section where I can set them, are similar) http://members.cox.net/pu61ic.1inux.dunc4n/pix/screenshots/pan14.png That second one is MUCH more readable, here, with the difference nicely illustrating why the 0.9x series pre 0.94 was all but unusable for me -- I couldn't read what I needed to read! Of course, it's likely that those with R/G colorblindness will find both images difficult or impossible to read, but that only reinforces the fact that pan really /does/ need those prefs, because the needs of the individual varies so much between individuals, it's essentially impossible to define something that everyone will find workable, without creating some way for them to change it to fit their prefs, as needed. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
