>> To Mark Richardson
Right, WP was white font on blue screen, and before that we had monochrome green on black or monochrome amber on black. Dazzling white bg came only later. An independent display and print configuration would be welcome.
>> To Sergei Karhof
I have a similar eye strain problem. My eyes can't stand large white areas on screens for a long time. I did set my desktop theme to be light fonts on dark bg, light grey on dark grey, not white on black, the contrast is too hard for me.
Unfortunately, you will run into problems often (unreadable combinations), when applications do not care about your desktop theme settings.
So Abiword does at least care about your desktop theme bg colour, Gnumeric doesn't, it is always dazzling white... And if you change the background colour of the sheet, it will print that way, unfortunately.
My recommendation would be: try to keep a positive desktop like I did recently, I mean fonts darker than bg. Something like black font on grey bg (e.g. a 55% to 65% grey) It is far less dazzling than a white bg. But with negative settings (light font on dark bg) you will run into much more problems than when keeping the image positive.
Another problem for sensitive eyes, is that 99% of the desktop themes you get are based on dazzling white bg. The very few that do not, are often unusable for other reasons, like contrast much too hard. There is no ready made theme around for us. Unity and XFCE won't give you a tool to adjust colours easily (the slim LXDE does and old Gnome2 did too). You'll have to fiddle around in config files with root rights and results may be as expected or not.
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:25:09 -0700
Mark Richardson <mark@lafn.org> wrote:
>
> In the old days of Word Perfect, we had blue screens with white font. It
> didn't print that way, and many people (like me) found that a more
> comfortable font/background combination. I believe it's a common feature
> in several word processors even now (display vs. print configuration).
> I'd like to see this in Abiword.
>
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