You can buy light bulbs that almost perfectly mimic sunlight, and with a lamp that can be directionally adjusted you can have the light from the bulb bounce off of other surfaces to mimic the way sunlight would bounce off of them before finally reaching your eyes.
Last I checked you don’t need to be an electrician to change a light bulb, and worst case if you’re not allowed to swap out the light bulb you can purchase a lamp. I’m not aware of any office buildings that will ban plugging in devices you need to do your work.
Companies typically should be following lightening regulations in work places.
However, certain changes should be possible, with simply discussing with a manager and CO workers.
I suggest try that @apiotuch_unity .
I really want to make this clear as people are exhibiting selective hearing with their responses. My lighting is not the issue. Staring at a white screen is the issue. Hence why dark mode exists in the first place and works for me for every other website, application, OS.
You’re posting in a section titled “General Discussion”. Topics created here are not guaranteed to stay on topic they were originally created for. If you wanted to create a thread solely focused on the topic of improving the forum then I recommend posting in the section intended for that.
Beyond that I would argue your responses have been just as selective as ours have been.
Please read the first post and explain to me how most responses have not completely deviated from the original discussion. General discussion doesn’t mean post whatever you want in whatever thread you want. from my original questions, none have provided a definitive answer.
We are generally discussing dark theme. This leads to questions about why its needed in turn leading to discussion about lighting, monitor brightness and why your monitor burns your retinas. I agree that having the whitest of white on the darkest of black or vice versa is not easy on your eyes but it’s more the difference between the two than which one is background that matters. Your eyes adjust to let more or less light in. When you mostly perceive low light they let more in making even mildly intense light seem painful. In extremely bright overall situations even a fairly bright light seems dim. Try this. Set your phone to max bright. Go outside on a bright sunny day and have a look. You will likely need to cast a shadow over the screen to even see the text that’s written. Then wake up in a completely dark room and have a look. It will hurt. A 60 watt lightbulb can barely be seen in full sun yet light an entire room at night. Contrast is the issue here.
We use similar replacements where I work. Occasionally they can be replaced by a non electrician but if your lights need changing you call maintenance, that’s our job. Most of the time the tombstone/ pin fitting the bulb goes in does not match and needs to be changed requiring electrical skill. Also fluorescents are driven by a ballast which is basically just a step up transformer. Most of the led replacements will function on either ballast voltage or line voltage but ballasts fail regularly and it’s best practice to remove the ballast and rewire the fixture so the led bulbs get power directly. Otherwise your leds that last a real long time fail sooner than expected when the ballast fails thus requiring the rewire you could have done when installing it in the first place.
People do not have a “selective hearing” issue. When you have a problem looking at a white screen, it means your room is too dark. You could get away with this with a CRT, but with a modern monitor, you need to brightly lit up the room or at least the wall behind your screen. Basically the wall behind the monitor should be as bright as the monitor or close. If you fail to do that, your eyes are going to hurt. And in case of “Dark mode” you’ll be enjoying afterimages.
You were addressing health issues in your OP post. Hence we were discussing various options, which may lead to it and some solutions. People often are unaware of other potential reasons, why they may have problem with eyes, while working with screens.
Besides lightening discussions, you were provided with solution, how to change the forum to dark theme. So this matter has not been omitted.
BTW. As side note, early dark themes trending were targeting mobile devices battery savings, rather than addressing eyes health problems. Also, it is often called night mode for a reason.
I personally rather preffer consistency in light / dark themes across frequently used applications, instead focusing on specific theme.
If you’re considering only a single website, yes, it scales best to make the change in one place. If you think about all websites and software packages then full coverage is about as unrealistic either way.
I sympathise with medical conditions and such, but I suspect the only realistic solution is plugins such as have already been suggested. Or if you’re on a Mac then I believe that OS X has built-in functionality for this. Heck, Windows may also have that these days.
For what it’s worth, given that Unity is attempting to (or has already) become an industry standard software package then this kind of accessibility feature would certainly be welcomed, along with a raft of other stuff. But that won’t solve the general problem of computer screens being uncomfortable to look at for some people.
Chrome is able to do this. Start by browsing to “chrome://flags”, search for “force dark mode”, and choose “Enable” for the option that shows up. Once you relaunch nearly everything will be dark. Only aspects that don’t change are the images.
I’m in favor of a forum dark theme, but it needs to be a good dark theme. For example I recently tried one of the Unity versions with the free dark theme, and it was actually less comfortable for me than the lighter theme, which was very surprising to me. In all other applications and websites I prefer dark themes.
