Suggestion for disabling alternating background lines

  • Resolved mondalaci

    (@mondalaci)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I think that the recently introduced alternating background lines feature is the worst misfeature ever. It’s supposed to ease reading by leading the eyes across rows.

    I totally get the concept but I really believe that it hurts the design very badly to the point that the disadvantage outweights the advantage. It’s not a coincidence that such feature is not implemented by most (popular) IDEs and by GitHub. Based on the forum posts I’m not the only one who doesn’t like it.

    I’d like to suggest to:

    Preferably yank this feature altogether. I’d be surprised to see anyone objecting but maybe I’m not right.

    Not-so-preferably at least provide a way to easily disable this feature. It could be something as simple as providing an alternative stylesheet out of the box that could be copied as $theme_directory/wp-config.php which would override the default stylesheet. This would be useful for people like me who are not CSS wizards.

    I’d love to hear user opinions about this issue.

    Thanks,
    Laci

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  • Plugin Author Steven

    (@shazahm1hotmailcom)

    @mondalaci

    This is definitely user subjective. Personally I like it and turn on the current highlighting feature within my IDE and very frequently click the line numbers on Github to highlight the line to help guide my eye when I’m reviewing code online. Are they a few that don’t like it, yes, but I’d say most, don’t feel passionately one way or another.

    But to address your concern more specifically. It’s on my to do list to give users the ability to completely control the highlighting color scheme. That way users can adopt it completely to suit their tastes.

    Thread Starter mondalaci

    (@mondalaci)

    @shazahm1

    Thanks a lot for addressing my concern!

    +vote

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