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Re:Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop... by zach43 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @08:38AM (#19006218)
I don’t quite understand your point. macOS just recently enabled dark mode as a “feature” pretty much decades after other OSes have had this built-in

To me, dark mode is the prime example of the flimsiness of relying on native GUI solutions...for years Apple ignored users and apps that wanted dark guis, despite the fact that dark mode is legitimately a lot better for a lot of people

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Re:Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:13AM (#19006854)
Try leaving the Apple bubble. Windows 95 had completely tunable color schemes and fonts. Even Windows 3 was highly configurable. That configurability went away with the rise of the web and the death of native GUIs, to the point that Microsoft didn't even bother making the native toolkit configurable at all in Aero.

We could tune up our own universally applied dark mode in 95 quite simply, but now each application has to implement that itself.

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