Please don't set dictionary's background as "white"

[slbtty]

Hi,

I don't know where the sources of the Wordnet dictionaries are in the wiki.

Both have a hardcoded white background (in default.css).

https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries#wordnet

In goldendict, the background can be yellow, or any colour of the user's choice.

In goldendict-ng, there is also a built-in dark mode.

Having a white background is ugly.

Please remove that line in the css that sets the background as white.

I don't know if other slob dictionaries also suffer from this "white" background.

Thanks,

slbtty

[Igor Tkach]

Converter is at https://github.com/itkach/wordnet2slob/, feel free to modify and compile the dictionary any way you see fit.

Background color is part of dictionary CSSs (plural, dictionaries can, and most of them do, have an alternate style, the dark one) just like it typically is part of a website CSS. I don't know about the inner workings of goldendict and goldendict-ng, but it seems like a limited/problematic approach to allow only changing background and expect that content is crafted in such a way that it always honors the user agent's appearance.  Obviously built-in dictionary appearance will not be appealing or usable for everyone,  so aard2-android app implements the ability for a user to provide a custom CSS and override that of the dictionary. The same can be done via browser extensions with aard2-web. Perhaps other apps may consider implementing this as well.

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[Boyd Kelly]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.   I have a dark terminal.   And I have no problem with a white default background for my dictionary.

Please leave the background as white.

[AardF...@web.de]

I do not understand the problem. In settings you can switch the User Interface Style Light or dark. And you may add custom UserStyles. I am using InfoBoxFix.css and night.css. Will upload those to  https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/

Feel free to modify :)

Hope this helps

[itkach]

On Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 4:32:35 PM UTC-4 AardF...@web.de wrote:

I do not understand the problem. In settings you can switch the User Interface Style Light or dark. And you may add custom UserStyles. I am using InfoBoxFix.css and night.css. Will upload those to  https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/

I think the issue is with article appearance in goldendict and goldendic-ng apps, which have the ability to set custom content background in the app and do not expect that content itself may specify background.

 

[AardF...@web.de]

Ok. Thanks Igor, I got it now. Sorry for the confusion