Re: Theme colors in the Vista era

This follows a trend started by Office 2003, and its flashy colors which
ignored the theme (leading to very ugly results for out of the ordinary
themes).

Office 2003 didn't ignore the theme. When using the blue Luna theme Ofiice
showed up very blue, when Olive then olivish, when silver then silver grey,
and when classic then plain grey.

Are applications now supposed to coordinate their own look, and
damn-the-user-theme...

I think we are supposed to coordinate our own look but still take into
account the current theme. DevExpress and TMSSoftware have components that
controls the display-settings of all (or most) of other controls (from the
same component vendor) in the application. Then, if you use controls from
different vendors, and maybe also make some yourself, it can start to get
really messy...


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