Ok... Maybe an interactive theme configurator is a little much to ask for at this point but ... <rant>Why does every theme have to emulate paper?!? A traditional book or printout doesn't radiate and thus cook my eyeballs... If paper beamed into your sockets, you wouldn't want to stare at it very long. It's hard to read a book in the dark... so since you need external illumination, black text on white paper makes a lot of sense. Now when we've entered a different realm where gazing in the dark is entirely feasible, we should resist the urge to mimic old ways. It seems so very simple yet it must not be ... command-line interfaces had it right (usually)... with light gray text on a black background... let our eyes focus on the light rather than the miniscule absence of it and they will itch and burn less... Computer displays are not paper! Don't force webpages or any other interface you design to adhere to such an antiquated paradigm! I guess what I'm trying to say is: Please make a theme with teal text on a deep navy (nearly black) background... white text here, yellow text there... the light colors are eye attractions and they're much more comfortable for me... I would assume that others feel similarly or just haven't ever thought about it or actually prefer scorched eyeballs... I'm aiming to someday write a Perl script that filters every site I specify in my browser so that I won't have to be dismayed by the color options of /. and perlmonks... arstechnica has it right... </rant> Sorry if I went on and on and ... about something as relatively trivial as the most important method for receiving data back from your computer and information from the net... I relapse into oblivion only to recover into abyss whence I climb up to chaos and plunge among ether. Stick some chopsticks next to me... I'm done. TTFN & Shalom.

-PipTigger

In reply to RE: Ideas for PerlMonks Themes by PipTigger
in thread Ideas for PerlMonks Themes by Seumas

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