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Suggestion: Changing The Color Background Default To Black Background With White Text

Asked by Twilight2013

In Appearance, Show timestamps in chat by default is enabled since DC++ 0.705. In Colors & sounds, black background with white text should be enabled by default. White background with black text can put a strain in vision sitting on the computer for a long period of time. I've noticed the majority of users in this forum & other websites have DC++ in black background with white text by screenshots I found on search engines sites like Yahoo, Google, etc. I hope this recommendation is taken into consideration in future versions even though it's not a bug-related problem & does not use too much CPU.

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poy (poy) said : 		#1

i myself also use a black background, i'm told it also consumes less energy...

but i believe default settings should remain "defaults", and nowhere have i seen white-on-black being a default. in Windows at least, and some nix distros i've tried, texts are always black by default. same for any text editor i know about (Windows' notepad, Vim, Emacs). then on printed stuff, generally papers are always printed black-on-white. now let's take Google itself, its default background is white.

while i agree that the change is nice, i think it's up to users to make it, and that defaults should follow common rules which, everywhere i've seen them, were always to have black text on white background.

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