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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I'm curious if the Afterglow looked ok when before you condensed the settings. You had the same look in settings then. I seem to remember when you first had the dark background with white letters you did it to make it easier to see on eink devices and it worked quite well.
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You are correct, before the changes it worked.
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Why it stopped working when I redid (condensed) the settings is a journey into the weirdnesses of Android. There are two kinds of preference category, one tappable and the other not. In the previous preferences implementation I used the untappable category as the outermost block with a tappable category embedded inside it. During the condensing project I discovered that not being able to tap the heading made it hard to use when the descriptions were short, and various spacing artifacts caused by the embedding made for very large untappable white space blocks in some cases. To fix this I changed to using the tappable category everywhere, which eliminated both problems. Unfortunately, I then discovered that it cannot be styled and it cannot be subclassed, so I was unable to fine-tune the appearance. This didn't matter until I tried it on the Afterglow.
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FWIW: I think the new appearance satisfies the goals as well as the previous one did.
- The preferences remain compact, with tappable titles and summaries.
- It is as easy, or perhaps easier, to rapidly visually separate and find the preferences.
- It works on all the devices I have
- And as a bonus, the reduced visual contrast is (for me) more attractive.
Here are half-size screen captures from the devices I own. Note that the Energy Pro is a variant of the Boyue T62+ (carta screen). It might not be easily visible, but on non-e-ink devices the general background is a light grey but the background of a preference is white.