Thank you. I've already gone back to the previous build but will keep this information on hand for reference!
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Microsoft Office Apps Now Support Dark Mode on macOS Mojave
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
And I would be happy to have a bug-free Office instead of dark mode for chrissakes
There will never be a bug free piece of software and the people who make the UI for Office aren’t the same as the people fixing the bugs anyway. Aside from the UI bugs of course.
To everyone out here complaining about the following:
Have you actually used these programs? Do you realize they ALL have the ability to customize font colors, background colors, cell coloring, etc.? Making them all dark immediately alters the implicit formating of the document: is it dark mode, or the document, that has now darkened my content? Are my email messages sending with a standard white background and black text, or vice-versa?
Dark mode is great for the USER INTERFACE. When it comes to document composition, we should push to retain the standard formatting of the document. I don't understand the hate here, imagine if this change was pushed and the average end-user ended up making their default email font color white...
- Outlook message composer having a white background
- Excel cells having a white background
- Word documents having a white background
Have you actually used these programs? Do you realize they ALL have the ability to customize font colors, background colors, cell coloring, etc.? Making them all dark immediately alters the implicit formating of the document: is it dark mode, or the document, that has now darkened my content? Are my email messages sending with a standard white background and black text, or vice-versa?
Dark mode is great for the USER INTERFACE. When it comes to document composition, we should push to retain the standard formatting of the document. I don't understand the hate here, imagine if this change was pushed and the average end-user ended up making their default email font color white...
Working at home now with Docs and coding etc. Natural ambient light from window to my left. iMac set on 6/16 for brightness gives almost identical illumination to real documents on my desk and the keyboard etc.Spoken like a person that doesn't have to work with "media" files all day.
[doublepost=1544662732][/doublepost]
What are you, a Tarsier?!?
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/animals-that-have-the-best-night-vision.html
In my experience, this set up is the best way to my reduce eye strain for this kind of work.
Install night owl, it put's a menu in the menu bar where it'll let you decide app per app what mode you want.
Also sets dark mode automatically when the sun goed down like nightshift. Kinda nice. (No affiliation, just a satisfied user)
https://nightowl.kramser.xyz
This is USELESS unless they are also creating a dark mode for the programs themselves and not just the UI/ribbons. I've long wondered why they got rid of blue background/white text that used to be on MS Office 2010 and before, it's nice to not have to look at glaring white all day long. Just like all the other stuff announced with dark mode is useless IMO unless the dark mode actually affects whatever function the program performs.
Sorry to say but Apple's UI is also long past its heyday of pixel perfect elegance.
Nah - you missed my point by trying to explain the purpose of the Mac mini
Enjoy your week mate.
People may smile at me, but I loved and miss the Skeuomorphism days.
These days it feels like there is a lot of inconsistency. Still, Apple's UI still looks lightyears ahead of what Microsoft has been putting out these past years. But I'm absolutely no fan of flat design or UI purism (with weird proportions) aka Linux
First, I hope you didn't take my friendly teasing about being a Tarsier the wrong way! I was just making a little (very little) joke!
That actually sounds like a good idea. I think we all get too used to computer screens being flashlight-bright, and it does cause eyestrain after awhile.
One question: When you set it that way, do you turn on the Ambient Light sensing, or not? And if so, how well do you feel that it "tracks" the environmental light level? And if not, do you find you have to "chase" the brightness setting to compensate for ambient light level changes, or do you just leave it alone and accept some degree of "mismatch"?
[doublepost=1544726841][/doublepost]
Like all the OSes that have been hit with the "flatten" hammer, I actually LIKED a more 3D look to display elements; but at least Apple didn't go full-on FLAT like Microslop has. And I use both every day; so I am intimately aware of the differences...
All in all, IMHO, Apple still has the best-looking UI, and at least with macOS, it has the best interpretation of what a good Desktop/Laptop OS should look/act like.
Yeah - no offence taken at all!
Regarding ambient light sensor, I just checked and it is on. But I haven't really noticed it doing anything. So, that either means it tracks really well that I don't notice...or that my light levels are pretty stable I guess!
Having said that, I do sometimes flick the brightness up and down a bit depending on how I feel. Notably, currently evening here, and I am back to 2/16. So I guess the iMac did that gradually itself!
Compose window too :-( The new dark background for the rest of the app somehow makes those white backgrounds even more hurtful to the eyes.
I don't think the ambient light sensor actually changes the actual "brightness" setting itself, as reflected in the System Preference "Pane"; rather, I think it adds a "bias" to the user's-brightness setting "AFTER" the manual setting.
But thanks for checking!
Though I just realized it occurs in Apple Mail as well. It'll happen when a sender sends an html/css based message with a white background.