Years back, I made a slightly modified version of Breeze-Dark, mostly because I thought the accent color was too bright.
Then, some months ago, there was a post here about getting the old colors back (or something like this). That was when I first noticed that the background colors really differed from what I used.
Personally, I feel the high contrast of the current Breeze-Dark is unpleasant to the eyes and believe it should go back to what I am using.
But back to the question: Why is Breeze-Dark getting darker over the years? Is it just to save a bit of power? Is it to follow current trends? Or are there any real studies saying itās better for UX?
EDIT2: Ok, it seems to be the browsers doingā¦ same effect when I open the link in vivaldi. So, for correct colors it may be necessary to download it and open it with gwenview.
Iām slightly curious as to whether the darker trend in themes, and the lack of ānot brightā light themes, is popular - I find that I always end up using my old edits.
I agree with the OP. I find the even darker version gives me headaches. I think a dark theme just needs to not burn your eyes out in a dim room; it doesnāt need to be pure black. Thatās why I based Klassy Dark initially on the original Breeze Dark.
Hm.. looks like a non-representative majority is for ādonāt make it too darkā? Still hoping for someone from the Breeze design team to chime in about the reasons.
I blacken everything possible. Lots of nightime computing in the dark.
By this, do you mean you darken the foreground (e.g. fonts) too?
The colours in Firefox match perfectly with my settings module.
Yup, Firefox displays it correctly for me, too. Vivaldi does notā¦ I suspect some weird decision by google in chromium :/.
Switching between Klassy Dark and Breeze Dark, thereās a slightly annoying prominent titlebar (Breeze blends it in, which I prefer). Breeze is as dark as Iād like to get, but it is a fine balance that suits MY room, my HDTV and my colour preferences - so my brightness is set around the same as Breeze Dark, but the fonts are slightly toned down.
Thereās no wrong/right here, but it would be nice if you could do an instant 24 hour survey across all installations of the KDE Plasma desktopā¦
For sure, the forum/reddit/wherever you try your survey/ is going to be a really non-representative majority.
But hey, whatās to stop anyone loading up Breeze Dark, then āsave as 001 Breeze Darkā and tweaking it to suit?
