Dark Colours on Desktop Controller

Please make skins for Sonos on the mac.

To me it would be okay if the colour of the foreground (letters etc.) would be the same as the 'File, Edit, Manage, Help' colour on top of the app. screen. Or as the words "The System, The Music, Shop, Support" on top of this page...but it's a much darker grey being used in the app...annoying if your laptop screen is tilted a bit too much forwards/backwards.

Dimitri

I agree. I have about 12 rooms powered by SONOS, and this new controller is cool, but I can't see hardly anything on it. I don't like it when companies force their funky color schemes on their users.

-Wayne

My phone and the cr200 display are fine. Both darker than I would like but I can manage. The desktop on my pc and mac are way too dark. If I close the curtains I can just about use the interface but I get so angry with it, I just don't bother.
I've given up on SONOS fixing this, but hopefully some 3rd party interface will become available.

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.

Hear hear! How about some skins, Sonos?

Howdi

While the colors are generally ok, the contrast is just not up to snuff. The very light blue on the black (?) is basically unreadable. Anyone who says otherwise is either way too in to Goth or has their monitor/ipad/ipod screen brightness too high.

Personally, I have never seen this in software before ... where it is to the point of frustrating !

Check these :

Original ... click this

Photoshop'd ... (only levels adj.) click this

That took 1 minute ... not saying it is ideal, but the latter is more readable.

Sonos ... you really gotta address this ... it's been perfection up to now :-)

Cheers
sd

Howdi

While the colors are generally ok, the contrast is just not up to snuff. The very light blue on the black (?) is basically unreadable. Anyone who says otherwise is either way too in to Goth or has their monitor/ipad/ipod screen brightness too high.

Personally, I have never seen this in software before ... where it is to the point of frustrating !

Check these :

Original ... click this

Photoshop'd ... (only levels adj.) click this

That took 1 minute ... not saying it is ideal, but the latter is more readable.

Sonos ... you really gotta address this ... it's been perfection up to now :-)

Cheers
sd

I suggest you adjust your monitor. My Desktop Controller looks like the second screenshot, not the first. Your contrast and brightness settings are way off.

It does look like your colours are off.... Mine wasn't much of an issue before they changed the palette a bit with 3.8.

Another thing to try, just as an experiement, would be to adjust the theme for your desktop too. Maybe if you pick something with different default settings, it might help see if it's a monitor tuning issue, or some other wierd setting.

It is frustrating, painful, annoying and disgusting to deal with this crappy app as the only way to control such great, albeit expensive, speakers. I don't care that some people love it, some argue it is what we would approve of if we only understood software design, etc etc...
GIVE US A SELECTION, A CHOICE.
The app on my laptops is unreadable, hard to manipulate the controls, no allowance for subfiles of music so I have scroll through my 240 Amazon albums to find what I want, no way to adjust the view of the app, the most recent upgrade with blackblue on black is so bad that it took me a few days to find the shuffle control again (which seems to have been miniaturized). I am also getting sick of your frequent forced upgrades that often don't download and then that controller has to be completely reinstalled....like every 3 months of so these days?
If your nerds can't fix it, at least allow some independent software designers to come up with an alternative. Your controller SIMPLY SUCKS.
And, I must say that as a result I am falling out of love with Sonos and think it's now just overpriced products. It really isn't that much
better than good computer speakers. You are losing one of the old faithful advocates. I now tell people to look around for alternatives..Sonos really may not be for them, especially if they want ease and convenience and choice in their life.

Uhhh, do you realize you are posting in a thread talking about the controller version from 6 years ago? And that 6 year old version is the the exact same color scheme as the one you are asking to go back to?