I've been monitoring this darkmode issues as a lurker for a few years now and I registered specifically to say that I'm finally transitioning from filezilla to other software because of the sheer obstinance of developers is mind boggling.
Take this example:
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botg wrote: ↑2021-08-31 07:57
The system dictates which colors to use, it has an API for that since at least Windows 3.1
Blame Microsoft for not using this perfectly fine functionality of their own operating system.
Filezilla is used by many developers. We know how it works, how programs choose their colors. You are choosing to use these colors supplied by Windows, as developers of FileZilla. This is not mandated, it is a design decision on your part. I have seen the
explanation from boco, how do I put this... so change it? Have you considered that blaming Windows is, to use modern vernacular, pretty cringe? Lots of us here make programs. We know what you're talking about. It's still a design decision on your part. Either appeal to Windows themselves, you're large enough that a question in the right place will get a solid answer or recommendation. You keep saying you're a "true win32 application", well, is this design decision enhancing or degrading your overall user experience, and furthermore, is it costing you users?
Well, it's cost you this user for now. I've waited long enough for you guys to come around and stop making excuses, because that's what they are, excuses for design decisions made, a remark that "oh well THAT comment was in 2019" then a continued rehash of the old dogma. Come on, man. We can do better than that.
botg wrote: ↑2021-08-19 05:48
It's telling if a multi-billion-dollar company cannot even make use of the functionality that's been in their own operating system since at least Windows 3.
It's telling if the development team widely used program cannot replicate simple visual functionality that's been in their own IDE's since at least 2010.
And now, every actual respected program that exists. It's just you guys. You're the last big ones. It is, quite literally, your problem. Just throw an obscure color pallet in a panel as an alternate "global theme", let us preset it, and be done with it. Then you can still be a "true win32 application". This is pretty simple stuff. Instead, just met by a bunch of rude excuses and blaming Windows, that kind of behavior puts a bad taste in anyone's mouth. Your obtuse design decisions are costing you users. Come on.
And that philosophy is reflected in my other post as well regarding your forum administration. Please properly fix your forum. These design decisions in filezilla are somehow bleeding over into your web administration - as I said in the other post, you have the default anti-spam countermeasure installed, and are just blocking entire domains from registering as a non solution. It's one of the most backwards things I've ever seen. Fix it. There's no excuse for a company such as yourselves to have 2003 anti-spam and start blocking gmail (LOL) to fight that. You won't receive support on phpbb.com as you deleted your copyright, so these two rants from me are the best you're gonna get. Good luck.