Theme colors in the Vista era
- From: Eric Grange <egrangeNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:49:22 +0200
Just out of Vista preview session, someone noticed that MS apps in Vista didn't care about theme colors much, and after testing, that proved to be actually the case: most have their own hard-coded color sets, and no amount of tinkering with the theme colors or appearance settings seems to affect them.
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).
So far, when doing gradients or themed bitmaps, we tried here to stick to variations of the theme colors (darkening, lightening, hue shifts, etc.) rather than handpick and impose/hardcode colors. Worked fine enough in XP, but the result is that in Vista, this just gives "the old look", the default theme colors being quite bland compared to the flashy colors of the vista explorer f.i. But ignore clBtnFace and the rest, handpick a few vista flashy colors, and the same gradients suddenly fit the rest of the vista UI.
Built-in controls are themed and okay, sure, but for all the custom ones? or all the cosmetic stuff around controls? Are applications now supposed to coordinate their own look, and damn-the-user-theme... like Office did? like websites do?
Or is this just a limitation of the RC1?
Eric
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