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Windows new light and dark settings...
I see there are some new settings, including "light" and "dark", for
"Windows" and "apps". Probably wishful thinking, but that needs to be tried, to see if it's an improvement over dark color schemes that never worked because you end up with hidden items. The question is whether Microsoft will darken things without darkening pictures and videos (and icons, which so far are a lost cause). I will try and find out. Not likely, but who knows. Would make my current inverted (white on black) system more efficient. |
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Windows new light and dark settings...
Before hopefully ditching Magnifier... The only complaint with Windows'
new settings is a lack of distinct hover color when mousing over the Taskbar. The hover color is radical and super obvious when using high contrast, but high contrast was hiding some items (in Firefox and maybe elsewhere). I don't know if high contrast was hiding items before 1903 and I just didn't realize it. The only other complaint is the choice of titlebar colors. It's like Microsoft has run the title bar through an ugly machine ever since the awesome looking gradient title bars in Windows Me (or SE). |
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Windows new light and dark settings...
At first glance... Difficult to tell, I have so much color
configuration stuff going. Very likely just wishful thinking, as usual. I will do a fresh install at some time, to figure it out for sure. I wrote: I see there are some new settings, including "light" and "dark", for "Windows" and "apps". Probably wishful thinking, but that needs to be tried, to see if it's an improvement over dark color schemes that never worked because you end up with hidden items. The question is whether Microsoft will darken things without darkening pictures and videos (and icons, which so far are a lost cause). I will try and find out. Not likely, but who knows. Would make my current inverted (white on black) system more efficient. |
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Windows new light and dark settings...
John Doe wrote:
If you look closely, you will notice darker colors are disallowed. And Yes, I know you don't want a darker color. Why Microsoft disallows darker colors is, well, one can only guess it has something to do with the Nanny State. The custom colour picker seems to disallow those with R/G/B values below 63, but you can click on "More" and enter the values directly, there 0/0/0 is accepted and does lead to black title bars. |
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Windows new light and dark settings...
Andy Burns wrote:
John Doe wrote: If you look closely, you will notice darker colors are disallowed. And Yes, I know you don't want a darker color. Why Microsoft disallows darker colors is, well, one can only guess it has something to do with the Nanny State. The custom colour picker seems to disallow those with R/G/B values below 63, but you can click on "More" and enter the values directly, there 0/0/0 is accepted and does lead to black title bars. Thanks. Yes, I see you can also use the color picker before clicking "More" and then "Done". |
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Windows new light and dark settings...
In article ,
(John K.Eason) wrote: In article , er (John Doe) wrote: The only other complaint is the choice of titlebar colors. One thing I forgot to mention is that I still use the old 'Windows Classic' view under Windows 7 but I imagine the registry tree will still be the same even if the colours are different. -- Regards John ) Remove the obvious to reply... |
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Windows new light and dark settings...
It most certainly is interesting.
Naturally the new built-in Windows light-dark color themes do not affect programs (maybe they affect some smartphone apps, but who knows, I'm a PC user). It does affect the file manager. Also, not sure when it happened, YouTube now has a built-in dark color scheme. The only thing it misses is the scrollbar, but oh well. Yes, the scrollbar is a Windows thing, but the question is how to change it without using Magnifier to invert all colors. The Windows thing and the new YouTube thing might be enough to go without Magnifier inverting all colors and then re-inverting graphics as possible. Stylebot for Chrome and maybe similar for Firefox can be used for any other important websites, while excluding its effect on YouTube. I forgot to look at VLC but most of it is graphics. Too bad Microsoft's new color settings don't apply to WordPad, but no surprise. Maybe EditPad Lite will do instead. The Magnifier shortcut keys, or the new color filters shortcut keys, can still be used to momentarily invert colors. I wrote: At first glance... Difficult to tell, I have so much color configuration stuff going. Very likely just wishful thinking, as usual. I will do a fresh install at some time, to figure it out for sure. I wrote: I see there are some new settings, including "light" and "dark", for "Windows" and "apps". Probably wishful thinking, but that needs to be tried, to see if it's an improvement over dark color schemes that never worked because you end up with hidden items. The question is whether Microsoft will darken things without darkening pictures and videos (and icons, which so far are a lost cause). I will try and find out. Not likely, but who knows. Would make my current inverted (white on black) system more efficient. |
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