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Re: light or dark?

 

Rodja's arguments are looking coherent to me. I like the light theme
but never tried the darker one.
+1 from me.

Kev

2010/9/13 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I haven't tried the lighter look on my G1 yet, but I do tend to prefer
> lighter color themes in Android.
>
> Sandy
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Olivier Bilodeau
> <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently in the merge proposal Benoit, Rodja and I have been working on[1],
>> a color change came up.
>>
>> In this branch (sync-ui), the default look was changed to a lighter theme
>> (black on white instead of grey on black).
>>
>> My original goal with the colors was to look as native as possible. Rodja is
>> saying that new apps looks lighter now:
>>
>>> All newer Google Apps like the Gallery, Android Market, Clock, Google
>>> Talk, Google Goggles, ... and the thrid party Apps where Google was involved
>>> like Amazon MP3 and the offical Twitter App use a light theme. I think this
>>> is a trend Tomdroid should follow.
>>>
>>
>> So, to those you played with that branch more than me: should we stick with
>> black on white or we revert this for 0.4? The intention here is to look
>> native.
>>
>> I would dislike going light and then getting bad feedback and reverting to
>> dark in a subsequent release so this is why I'm asking here. Please, no
>> discussion of advanced options to provide themes unless you are willing to
>> do the code for it.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> [1]  https://code.launchpad.net/~tomdroid-dev/tomdroid/sync-ui/+merge/33434
>> --
>> Olivier Bilodeau <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
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