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Date/Time: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:34:19 +0000
Post From: Product Suggestion for 2025: Support the Windows 11
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| Jedi Trader - Posts: 14 |
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Product Suggestion for 2025: Support the Windows 11 Theme Settings [My post title was truncated] Dark themes are popular with users. Your support board contains at least a half dozen requests over at least 7 years to add proper support for this. Even your web-site supports a dark theme. Many additional financial markets and platforms are shifting to 24 hours, and the last thing traders want at 3 AM in the morning is to have white light projecting out at their faces from an array of 4K monitors. There are available hacks, including installing third party themes; however, these are extremely invasive (they affect other applications) and way outside the main Windows model. Guidance from YouTube videos consists of scrolling slowly through the 350+ colour settings so that users can copy and implement these themselves. Not a good look. However, Windows 11 now orchestrates the theme for apps, in addition for its own features. The user experience that is desired is that a Windows 11 user goes: Personalization >> Colors >> Choose your mode >> Dark [or, optionally, Choose your mode >> Custom >> Choose your default app mode = Dark] and this should have the effect of changing the main window colour scheme for Sierra Chart, including the main menu and control bars, and chartbook tabs/background. This does not necessarily need to override all of the graphics settings at and below the level of chartbooks, in your object hierarchy. In Excel, for example, support for dark mode is at the level of the main window, menu and control button bars, but does not extend down into the spreadsheet cells (unless the user selects an entirely different Contrast Theme, that is targeted at folks with forms of vision impairment.) I fully realize that this feature would be a significant investment for any software company. However, I'd suggest that it's past-time to bite the bullet. And while you're at it, you might want to update your fonts. Feel free to simply study and copy what Excel 2024 and Visual Studio 2022 are doing for both dark theme support and typeface selection for all of the menus. Likely, many of your users are also heavy Excel and/or Visual Studio users. Just ask ChatGPT and it will tell you the name of all of the fonts used. Please let us know whether you are able to commit to placing this feature on your 2025 Road-Map, in case it isn't already. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2024-12-14 14:56:02
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