Theme colors cause accessibility (migrane) issues
Before Moving to 11.04/11.10 Ubuntu (Gnome) you could choose various aspects of your UI but also change the color. I.e. you could choose Ambiance but then make the whole UI dark. This was necessary to thwart headaches and Migraines as IMO white/bright UI is idiotic as all you're doing is blasting your eyes with light until they burst into flames.
Now with the shift to gnome3/shell and Unity you can't change shit. You're stuck using a very limited set up themes that are disgusting and headache educing. I've tried utilities like gnome-color-chooser but it doesn't work. Aside from the fact before you could redo your whole UI with 8 color selections gnome-color-chooser has an ungodly number of elements to change yet it only works on a few parts of the UI. Open Nautilus, welcome headache and white background blaring at my eyes.
Thanks to all the changes I don't even know what I'm fighting anymore, what is adhering to unity stuff, gnome3/shell or GTK3. I hate to sound ignorant but I'm too busy in life to sift through source and read for hours (though I've been trying so as to not vomit or go back to 10.10/10.04 because of kernel driver issues. Though that's ironic since there is a backlight glitch in kernel 3 but the wireless N works now.
While myself and everyone I know despises Unity and the Gnome shell the gripe isn't so much all the change but the regression of user power. The options that gave people with visual problems or needs has been removed, obscured, destroyed and now it's like using Mac or Windows. Here is the shit theme we think you will like, use it and shut up. Just like 9.04 iirc allowed you to changed your GDM themes, then they took that away next release and you had to resort to lame things like sym linking the preferences to auto launch for the GDM profile to change it.
Leaving users at the mercy of theme creation is insanity. Apples solution is to invert, because you know people with light issues or Irlens syndrome want to see everything wrong in order to not have their eyes burnt out. Sadly Microsoft has the only albeit ugly solution allowing you to drop to "classic" and have control over the UI though there are a lot of programs that hard code font or check box colors once again assuming the fucking world loves white backgrounds and black fonts.
Point being is a simple and sweeping control over UI colors is a MUST, I can not stress this enough and so hopefully someone can give me some answers on how to unify things to get a solid dark UI in gnome fall back. To be clear making title bars dark is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about backgrounds of ALL windows around #464646 and text of #B4B4B4. In the old settings you set the window colors (I just mentioned) then the selected tool tips and so on. Nice, easy, changes took places across everything. How the F#$% can we get this back in the current and future versions of Ubuntu?
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