It's not a desktop/laptop thing. It's a full screen/windowed thing. If you are full-screen, you won't notice that the rest of your system is hosed up.
I'm all for classic darkness, and giving some purpose to infravision, ultravision, and all those light-source objects. Before I ran EQ this morning, I was on the dark side.
BUT, now that I've run it *on a desktop* - my email is dark, my browser is dark, my background screen is dark. Everything is dark. This would be considered a heinous bug with any other program, and I think it's a bug here too.
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