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Posted by Lucas
Jun 11, 2020 at 02:58 PM

@washere: I find this interesting. Is it really true that most people in the groups you refer to prefer dark mode? I certainly don’t, even if I spend 12 hours at the screen. I find it quite irritating that many apps are now starting by default in dark mode. I assumed it was just a fad. But it certainly makes sense to offer choices.

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jun 11, 2020 at 03:11 PM

washere wrote:
> Most professionals who are buyers of sophisticated productivity tools, like coders writers it-staff managers editors etc, can’t afford to stare into a virtual big filming Light-box (white screens) at close up for 8 to 10 hours a day anymore. That’s why most of them nowadays mainly work with dark theme apps. Any app that offers dark mode easily doubles+ their client base and then grows faster by word of mouth online.

Hi washere,

I agree that dark themes are in vogue right now and preferred by “some” but would not be ready to bet that it is the case for “most” (as in > 50%)
Or that it is better than a light theme… :
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/

After all, nearly all printed matter is black on white…

That said, IQ/IQO support for dark mode is progressing (in Options.ini, set theme to Dark), though much more work is required to complete the transition. For the Doc pane, the “Night” style sheet is a good start which users can adapt.

But thanks for reminding me that I should work, from time to time, on improving the dark mode support of IQ/IQO

Pierre

Posted by washere
Jun 11, 2020 at 04:09 PM

That’s good to know You’re on it. Well I didn’t talk about various aspects of light vs dark, most people, etc etc. I mentioned pro people working long hours daily with large screens with productivity tools. Quite specific.

Windows theme hacking forums, forcing MS to go dark, cgi & effects studios setups, IDEs etc can tell stories from well over two decades.

Benefits to white? I’ve read even more. I can write some benefits to white no one has ever written about. Which Apple knows (worked with them too) and keeps secret. That’s not the point. But overwhelming majority of writers and almost all coders I’ve met are dark. Quite specific, not general public who really don’t get into sophisticated productivity tools as I said.

It’s not a trend, been increasing for thirty years steadily. Because no one in their right mind WORKS a few inches from one or more big light boxes staring into it focusing on text details (not general public surfing) for 8 to 10 hours, day after day, month in month out, year after year, decade after decade. One day they look over someone’s shoulder and say damn.

I know it’s hard for IQ. We both know if you were starting from scratch today it would be a doddle though. But ultimately unavoidable, not so ten or twenty years ago. That’s the point, you’ll have to get back to it. Build it, and they will come. That’s my opinion to all devs on this forum who are resisting the dark side. Got to dash. Good luck Pierre.

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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jan 14, 2021 at 09:16 PM

Hi Outliners,

After more than 6 months where dev. effort was centered on the “pro” version, InfoQube IM, we finally got around to updating the “free” version, IQ Outliner.

Two major new features are included in this version:

- New: Evernote Sync : See https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/5099
- New: Card View : See https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/4987

In addition, this is also included:

- New: Find and Replace (grid or file scope)
- New: Doc: Insert Image dialog

Enjoy !

Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
Download: https://www.infoqube.biz/download

p.s. If Linux / macOS users want to work with us, it would be great if we could get IQO running on Wine / Crossover

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 14, 2021 at 09:41 PM

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>p.s. If Linux / macOS users want to work with us, it would be great if
>we could get IQO running on Wine / Crossover

Hi Pierre,

I’m happy to do testing on Linux if it helps.

You should have my email as a registered user of InfoQube.

All the best!

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