Dark Mode Option

[daniel_pidcock]

@Box

This is somewhat disingenuous, the option to Vote has only recently been added and doesn’t reflect the actual number of people that have shown an interest in Dark Mode.
Yes, moving forward it may be a way of highlighting the amount of interest into one thread, but it does not take into account the many thousands of views of the many threads related to Dark Mode. I large number of those views are probably from people that would have voted had the option been available when they Searched How to use Dark Mode.

Indeed the vote option has only been there for a year or so, but if we use number of views as a measure it is way down the priority list! Also votes are a way better measure of actual user interest.

@Box

If Dark Mode isn’t of benefit/wanted, why did the Ipad version developers include it.

It is of benefit and wanted.
The iPad team could include it because they didn’t have 25 years of UI code & icons, built on multiple different UI frameworks to go through and adjust, and then test every single bit of UI on all platforms and multiple operating systems. Instead they were building a new UI from scratch. Also the iPad UI has a considerably smaller number of controls than the desktop UI. And don’t forget, there is not a major project (Qt) on iPad such that it really doesn’t make sense to add colour mode capability to the entire UI, and then rewrite the UI in Qt.
[edit] And how could I forget layout! That has a really extensive UI, and shipping dark mode sketchup without dark mode layout would probably not be well received by regular layout users…