Bug#930569: debian-installer: Dark theme installer selects MATE by default
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:11:28AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Yevgen, le lun. 17 juin 2019 12:05:36 +0300, a ecrit:
>> 1) Assumption that dark themes were meant mostly for low vision is realy
>> subjective.
>> Some people use them at night, some just prefer them...
>
>This "dark theme" choice has never been meant for general user theme
>preferences support, but really for accessibility.
>
>> 2) It makes Debian installer inconsistent
>
>We can't really be consistent, unless we happen to have one choice of
>desktop which provides good support for all Debian goals. Gnome does not
>currently provide as seamless accessibility support as MATE does.
That's all OK, but it would be lovely to have some warning that "dark
theme" is *meant* for the visually-impaired. I'd just seen this as an
apparently arbitrary choice of different colours without that
information...
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