Help with gentler dark mode in waveforms

[cprosser]

Hi folks,

I suffer from migraines, and when they are bad, I struggle with light sensitivity. This means I like to avoid user interfaces that have full brightness (or darkness) colors as it tends to cause too much contrast and can be painful for me to look at.

I was thrilled to find that I can modify the stylesheets for Qt myself and was able to improve a lot of things. I was also able to change the trace colors to be a little dimmer. But I still can't figure out how to address anything that's not a Qt control, mainly the data display areas in Logic and Scope.

I'd like to set the background to #1E1E1E (like Visual Studio Code) and bring the full brightness values (anything with a 255 in it) to something less bright. 

Is this possible?

I've attached my latest version of the stylesheets along with screenshots pointing out the places I'm having problems. This is with 3.17.19 (beta).

Thanks!

--chris

 

BetterDark.css

[attila]

Hi @cprosser

The next sw version will have Gray/soft style option.
I'm working on the qstyle of the remaining UI elements and adding Gray mode support the other various graphical elements.

Than you for your post.

[cprosser]

That's fantastic news! Thanks for the quick response, I look forward to beta testing the new color scheme.

[attila]

Hi @cprosser

See the Gray style in the latest WF beta version.

 

[cprosser]

@attila That's a great improvement. I really like the addition of "gray" for a background setting. A few things I noticed (and questions).

1) In Settings:Dark mode I'm finding the Scope trace colors too dim. Red, Yellow, and Blue have a  default value (from HSV) of 208. I find somewhere around 220-225 more pleasing. On second thought the longer I use Waveforms in this mode, maybe the current colors are fine.
2) The Scope: Spectogram and Persistence when switched to color: Gray drops the color a lot. Peak red goes from 256,0,0 to 128,0,0. I think the color scale for "Dark" is fine for the Gray mode too, just dimming the text labels would be great.

3) Is there a way for me to save my own default workspace? The default them for Spectrogram and Persistence when Settings Dialog: Style:"Gray"/Digital:Gray/Analog:Gray is still the Black scheme. I'd like to change that default but it doesn't seem sticky on my system.

I went through all the tools and this is quite a nice change. Thank you!

--chris

[attila]

Hi @cprosser

In the last version:
1. The default colors are adjusted a bit.
2. The spectrogram and persistence default is current style, except when this is Light it is set to Black.
3. The default colors can't be changed but custom channel colors are remembered in workspaces/projects.

 

[cprosser]

Everything looks great! Ship it :)

 

--c