<story><title>Scrollbars are becoming a problem</title><url>https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pannoniae</author><text>I have come to a funny realisation recently. It&amp;#x27;s not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it&amp;#x27;s the UIs which are becoming worse. The tiny scrollbars with laughable contrast are in no way accessible to anyone. I&amp;#x27;ve recently switched to using KDE with the Oxygen theme and it&amp;#x27;s a joy to use without any eye strain.&lt;p&gt;These scrollbars are absolutely pathetic, with no room for customisation. (good luck theming a locked-down application) It&amp;#x27;s blatant how UI designers don&amp;#x27;t give a damn about the users&amp;#x27; needs, not even in FOSSland. I am not entirely sure why this is the case but it&amp;#x27;s a sad regression from the days when we had good-looking, functional, accessible and snappy software. Not locked-down, unthemable electron bullshit.&lt;p&gt;Also, we wouldn&amp;#x27;t need &amp;quot;dark mode&amp;quot; or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speeder</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t use dark mode for contrast, I use because a lot of software &amp;quot;light mode&amp;quot; is just plain white. And screens been getting more and more powerful.&lt;p&gt;Often using software without white mode the thing is so bright, that the walls near me get lighted up as if I was using a flashlight or something.&lt;p&gt;Thus I have to make the screen less bright, but often this also make the screen colors and contrast get all screwy and I still can&amp;#x27;t see anything.&lt;p&gt;I miss Win 9x era grey interface... it wasn&amp;#x27;t beautiful but I could actually see stuff.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scrollbars are becoming a problem</title><url>https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pannoniae</author><text>I have come to a funny realisation recently. It&amp;#x27;s not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it&amp;#x27;s the UIs which are becoming worse. The tiny scrollbars with laughable contrast are in no way accessible to anyone. I&amp;#x27;ve recently switched to using KDE with the Oxygen theme and it&amp;#x27;s a joy to use without any eye strain.&lt;p&gt;These scrollbars are absolutely pathetic, with no room for customisation. (good luck theming a locked-down application) It&amp;#x27;s blatant how UI designers don&amp;#x27;t give a damn about the users&amp;#x27; needs, not even in FOSSland. I am not entirely sure why this is the case but it&amp;#x27;s a sad regression from the days when we had good-looking, functional, accessible and snappy software. Not locked-down, unthemable electron bullshit.&lt;p&gt;Also, we wouldn&amp;#x27;t need &amp;quot;dark mode&amp;quot; or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwells89</author><text>&amp;gt; Also, we wouldn&amp;#x27;t need &amp;quot;dark mode&amp;quot; or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.&lt;p&gt;Contrast is a factor yes, but the other thing that&amp;#x27;s happened with the flat UI epidemic is banishment of mid grays and light grays in favor of stark white and off-whites, making &amp;quot;light mode&amp;quot; much more bright looking than it had been previously. It&amp;#x27;s no wonder people were clamoring for dark mode after blinding flat UI had taken over.</text></comment>