Dark Colours on Desktop Controller

It is not just you, other people complain about it as well.
I happen to like it; because it looks good!

It's a little dark...but I think the degree of complains are directly correlated to how old you are. 😛

Is it me or is anyone else finding it really difficult to read and see the screen. The dark colours may be nice and sexy but they are rubbish to work with. I keep having to move the screen around to try and get it in exactly the right place so that I see anything. It's a real pain!

While it it darker than most others applications, I do not seem to be as annoyed by it as others who have posted here to complain.

The Desktop Controller does have a less-forgiving viewing angle than many other PC applications, but nothing that can't be accommodated with the correct viewing angle of the LCD screen. This also gives me the best angle for other programs.

All-in-all, I am not disturbed by the 'issue'.

YMMV

Best of Luck

If you know something about USABILITY aspects within software development you would know that light letters on dark ground is less usable than the other way around (dark letters on light ground).


Look at: http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/chapter11.pdf

To Dark on my Macbook Air
I also mis a quick way for my Favorite Radio station.

I like the dark blue and black color scheme. But I don't understand why Sonos can't provide at least one alternative with dark text on light background so customers can choose what works best for their eyes and/or desktop theme.

I'm one of those Sonos PC App users who thinks the "light black on dark black" is a terrible choice! It can't be that hard to have users pick colours for the text and/or background, now can it?

Dimitri Kokken
Belgium

It's a little dark...but I think the degree of complains are directly correlated to how old you are. :p

Well speaking as an oldie, I don't find this to be an issue. Since we are talking about desktop issues, one suggestion I would make is it may be related to the viewing angles on your screen. My screen's angles seems to be quite generous but if I increase the angle it does indeed darken. Interestingly I find the problem in the opposite direction - when the background becomes too pale - because the contrast level between the blue background and white font goes too low.

I also think it depends on how the individual interprets the colours.... I'm so accustomed to dark background, light text. Normally, the minute I'm creating a new profile on any computer, the first option is to change the background to flat black. White/grey text..... Maybe step up to a forest green/which combo.

So I'm used to the current colours, and don't have an issue. Maybe others who like the light background dark text...... it's a totally different story.

For me, the color scheme is between gray text on a darker gray background is less then optimum. On a (now retired) desktop CRT, I had to change the monitor's gamma before I could see much of anything at the top. My replacement LCD display is OK in this respect, but I must be careful about the video setup.

On my laptop the contrast between the text and background is a little low and I must be careful about ambient light levels and viewing angles or this gray on gray does not work for me.