My head is now spinning from all the recent changes around here. Still I approve.

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

I approve of the new TV Look.

 

However, I would like to know....

 

How can I change the background from BRIGHT WHITE to....

 

A darker shade of pale.....?

 

 

I like the new look, even though most of us, and I included, are almost too old for change...

 

NICE!

 

Best regards,

Gamma

 

Note: Darker Pale, please....but just my own preference.

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

24 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I approve of the new TV Look.

Do you approve of the 'new' name? 

 

To go to Dark Mode, click on the Moon at the top of the screen.

[GammaGlobulin]

4 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Do you approve of the 'new' name? 

 

To go to Dark Mode, click on the Moon at the top of the screen.

 

THANK YOU....!!!!!

 

I will try it.

 

Much appreciated.

 

I do not normally enjoy getting such a BLAST from my screen as I do with this new look.

 

Still.

I am NOT making ANY suggestions for changing what is now the status quo...mind you!!!!

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

25 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

To go to Dark Mode, click on the Moon at the top of the screen.

 

Tried this.

 

Although this feature does not seem to be working on my DESKTOP computer, I am sure this feature will be available, in due course.

 

Clicked 10 times...

Still getting BLASTED by this whiteness.

 

Might as was well go outside and "stand in the noonday sun".

 

 

[KannikaP]

4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Tried this.

 

Although this feature does not seem to be working on my DESKTOP computer, I am sure this feature will be available, in due course.

 

Clicked 10 times...

Still getting BLASTED by this whiteness.

 

Might as was well go outside and "stand in the noonday sun".

 

 

Actally, it is NOT working. I have changed my background to dark grey, but the Moon is inoperative. Under the Customize menu, Dark Mode does nothing, the others can be moved to Green, but do not seem to do anything except the background.

Ask Charlie.

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, KannikaP said:

Actally, it is NOT working. I have changed my background to dark grey, but the Moon is inoperative. Ask Charlie.

 

No need, I think.

 

Just be patient, I think.

 

[jerrymahoney]

5 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

No need, I think.

 

Just be patient, I think.

 

As long as they don't restrict the number of new topics one can start per day or per week, you'll be OK.

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, jerrymahoney said:

As long as they don't restrict the number of new topics one can start per day or per week, you'll be OK.

 

No worries.

 

It's easier to write fewer Topics.

 

However, I think it would be very difficult to write more.

 

 

[KannikaP]

Please give the option for Notifications be removed  once they have been read.

[jerrymahoney]

8 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

No worries.

 

It's easier to write fewer Topics.

 

However, I think it would be very difficult to write more.

 

 

Yes no worries -- if your topics didn't populate the sidebar, I would know you exist.

[GammaGlobulin]

4 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Yes no worries -- if your topics didn't populate the sidebar, I would know you exist.

 

If you were to ZOOM your screen in CHROME, then you would not even see the sidebar.

 

Also, on my screen, the site actually looks BEST when I zoom to 125%

 

Like this:

 

 

 

[bubblegum]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

Do you approve of the 'new' name? 

 

To go to Dark Mode, click on the Moon at the top of the screen.

Doesn't change the bright white

[GammaGlobulin]

9 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Doesn't change the bright white

 

Speaking of BRIGHT WHITE.....

 

Reminds me of Marilyn.......

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

By the way, just to be honest:

 

With all the changes around here, during the past months, this site has NEVER been snappier.

 

a.  Super Fast, when posting a Topic, compared to what it once was.

 

b. Most importantly, submitted comments, or half-completed comments are RARELY lost, if ever lost.

 

These two improvements are pretty much paramount, one might opine.

 

 

[connda]

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes...

[GammaGlobulin]

2 minutes ago, connda said:

I see a red door and I want it painted black

 

Ever been to the GREEN DOOR in Taipei?

 

Sadly, those days are over now...for the Formosans.

 

Seems the gov there has gentrified the place.

 

[Ben Zioner]

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I like the new look,

What new look?

[jvs]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Tried this.

 

Although this feature does not seem to be working on my DESKTOP computer, I am sure this feature will be available, in due course.

 

Clicked 10 times...

Still getting BLASTED by this whiteness.

 

Might as was well go outside and "stand in the noonday sun".

 

 

There are different settings in Windows and there are also some apps you can download for free to adjust the brightness of your screen.

With all of the "improvement" of course they have forgotten about the arrow again.

 

[GammaGlobulin]

9 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

What new look?

 

The look of things to come.

Give it time.

 

Shapes of things to come.....

You AIN'T seen nothing yet....

 

My eyes just hurt my brain.....

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, jvs said:

There are different settings in Windows

 

WHAT'S Windows?

 

I am on LINUX

 

You should be ON LINUX....too!!!!!

 

 

[connda]

13 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Ever been to the GREEN DOOR in Taipei?

 

Sadly, those days are over now...for the Formosans.

 

Seems the gov there has gentrified the place.

 

Nope.  But I did go to a back-alley Japanese bar in Yokohama in the 1980s where it alley ended at a red door.  My friends an I went in.  The Japanese wait-staff tried to shoo us out as we were gaijin 外人, but I spoke some Japanese at the time and convinced them to let us stay as long as there were no other Japanese customers.  God - a sake hangover is terrible. Great fun though from a cultural point-of-view.

[connda]

11 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

WHAT'S Windows?

 

I am on LINUX

 

You should be ON LINUX....too!!!!!

 

 

Linux Rocks.

[GammaGlobulin]

21 minutes ago, connda said:

Linux Rocks.

 

Actually, from my experience, there is almost ZERO excuse to not be on Linux, these days.

 

I changed my computers over to Linux recently.

 

I have one small notebook that still has Windows loaded.

 

I never use it.

 

One thing, though....as has been mentioned elsewhere....

 

The scanner software from Canon seems to not work on Linux...

 

So then, you gotta pay money for a premium software application, which works OK.

 

Therefore, I just save the notebook for scanning.....

 

Otherwise, Linux works far better than Windows, for almost everything.

 

NOT DEBATING HERE...by the way....!

 

If anyone likes Windows, then just keep on keeping on....

 

 

LINUX:  Just a suggestion for those, such as the likes of me, who might prefer a better personal-computer experience.

 

It "UPS to you", as they say, in Thailand.

 

 

[jvs]

36 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

WHAT'S Windows?

 

I am on LINUX

 

You should be ON LINUX....too!!!!!

 

 

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/monitor-brightness-change

[GammaGlobulin]

36 minutes ago, jvs said:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/monitor-brightness-change

 

I think you misunderstand.

 

It's more about color.

 

I don't like white.

 

Even my rice, I do not like white.

 

I like jasmine, which is NOT white.

 

 

[Crossy]

If you click on the "Customizer" to the left of the moon thingy you can choose from a limited selection of alternative backgrounds.

 

"Blues" might suit.

[Crossy]

@GammaGlobulin try Dark Mode now 🙂

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

If you click on the "Customizer" to the left of the moon thingy you can choose from a limited selection of alternative backgrounds.

 

"Blues" might suit.

 

Very nice.

This button works well.

 

If I might....suggest....

 

Sometime in the future, you might add a few more shades of pale (sold colors), but definitely not BLUE.

 

Personally, I like the original shade of IBM's OS/2, if I might be so bold as to make any recommendation here, which I am NOT making.

 

Any color you like....

Is fine with me.

 

But, more of them, solid colors, might be appreciated by others.

 

 

 

In fact, I would not be unhappy if you copied the entire color scheme of OS/2 (traditional), before that lousy WARP garbage was introduced.

 

Still, I will make no suggestions.

 

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

@GammaGlobulin try Dark Mode now 🙂

 

Tried it.

 

It's not for me.

 

And, do you know why?

 

I have heard of another forum in Thailand....

One which I HATE with a passion.

 

The color scheme is way off.

 

That other site makes me feel so depressed that I never go there.

 

When I went there, last time, about.....around......the year 2013....

 

I got so depressed I had to go to China for a year, just to regain my composure.

 

I think this beige color that you got going is fine....

If only you might just darken it a tad.

 

Because....as it is...there is not enough CONTRAST between the BRIGHT WHITE and the beige.

 

Maybe, in the far distant future, you might just add some sort of INTERACTIVE palette, so that each member can choose....

 

 

Still, everything here is going swimmingly for me.

 

And, nobody can validly doubt that there has not been great progress....so far.

 

Moreover, I do expect we have not seen nothing yet.

 

I would say....to sum up the entire effort:

 

KUDOS!!!!

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

@GammaGlobulin try Dark Mode now 🙂

Oh yes thank you, Superb. And the Green Arrow is back. Thanks so much.