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They'll get dark, light, rainbow, whatever the user has set. This was a feature since at least Windows 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25871787 https:
by userbinator 2y ago
They'll get dark, light, rainbow, whatever the user has set.
This was a feature since at least Windows 3:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25871787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25871787
- Rohansi 2y agoI don't think this actually reflects the new light/dark mode people are referring to here. It will most likely always be the default theme - light. Also changing those old themes has a good chance to "break" any (poorly made) apps doing their own themes. You could change some colors in the palette and parts of the UI could end up being difficult or impossible to read. Happens if the app uses a combination of palette controlled colors and custom colors.
- mrpippy 2y agoCorrect. For Win32 apps, the only official support for dark mode is some WinRT APIs to tell if it’s enabled, so you can “adjust your application's painting and rendering code to use a Dark mode color set” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modernize/apply-windows-themes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/moder...
- ack_complete 2y ago> Also changing those old themes has a good chance to "break" any (poorly made) apps doing their own themes. They already do this. COLOR_3DFACE has gotten brighter with each successive version of Windows and in Windows 11 is #F0F0F0. I've had to fix UIs that became unreadable as a result.
- jenscow 2y agoThose colour settings are not aware of Windows 11's "Dark mode"
- userbinator 2y agoNot surprising. Typical "modern" Microsoft. Reinventing things poorly is so common these days.