Windows 1o Themes

[Dimple Belousson]

Hi, I am debating whether to upgrade to 3 from 1. I, too, am having problems with the themes and changes to only part of the background. The reason, I was trying this is that I find tiny greyed icons very difficult to see and differentiate. Also the use of a pastel shade to the font rather than a good strong black or dark colour does not make it easy for me. Any simple tweaks to make the main screens more readable, please?

I have the same problem. Tried it for almost 2 hours and then gave up. Works on the default theme, but not on any other theme. Changes on the default theme are not saveable as an own theme. Would love to have this fixed. Looks just stupid the way it works right now

And you will need a coding environment which can read .pal files, .qss, and XML.
Those are the only three files you will be editing; as the preferences file, you would edit from within Scrivener by setting your options.

Everything else can be changed though. So for me, I changed the highlight / transparency, foreground and background colors, as well as the color scheme. This you cannot do from within scrivener and it takes a little time, as you must alter the qss file as well as the pal file and the xml file.

Thomas, if it has been awhile; CSS is radically different from when it was part of HTML. If your background is HTML3 or even 4, I recommend hitting YouTube or Free Code camp. And QSS is again a bit different from CSS. There are tons of articles on it though, so you should be fine. And VS code has support for QSS.

.pal is a palette file, this one was brand new to me too. From what I could dig up, it is an 18-bit!!! antiquated color-scheme frequently used in legacy video games. So, a slight wrinkle, as when you type in RGB values, PAL will convert if from the 255 shades of RGB to its 18-bit system, so the colors show up somewhat different. .pal does not take RGBA either.

I have created these themes with them, including specific background and text colours, and I want to export them to a .theme file to use in a GPO to automatically have it apply to their account.
Problem is, I cannot find a single bit of information about this on the internet, only tons of articles on how to disable or enable high-contrast.

A Windows Theme is a visual pattern that predefines the collection of wallpaper, icons, pointer, screensaver, sounds or any color styles which together form the looks of your PC. You have the options to customize the themes to your likings and modify the standard interface of your Windows PC.

There are Windows Themes available on this site and it's free to download. Each theme can be classified into certain categories such as games, animes, sport, movies, nature and just about anything you can think of. Now here you have the high-quality themes at your fingertips and we are constantly updating the new themes. Explore the Windows Themes galleries now!

Browse through the categories and pick any Windows themes according to your personal preferences. Before downloading the themes, please choose any version of your Windows 11, 10 or 7. Locate destination of the downloaded file and after opening the file, it will automatically go to the theme setting and you can change it to the recent themes.

With the growing popularity of animated wallpapers, we recommend you another way to customize your desktop. Live wallpapers are dynamic backgrounds that bring your desktop to life with animations and effects. You also can personalize live wallpapers in many ways, including the speed, direction of the animation and appearance.

I am trying to install a windows theme for all users. I created an MSI that puts the .jpg and .theme files in the respective folder. This installs during the OSD Task Sequence from SCCM. The problem is, it does not activate the theme when a user logs in. I edited the GPO "Load a specific Theme" to this install location and theme. I know the GPO only works when a new user logs in. I have tested this many times with my Engineering team and it still will not activate the theme until "manually" selected.

I am having the same problem with Windows 10 64 bit & LibreOffice 6.0.6.2 Firefox themes are not showing. There seems to be some internet activity but when it finishes there are still no themes shown. I do like the ability to change the application and document colours so easily. Not a problem if themes are not possible in Windows but would be nice if possible as I have used them in the past.

I have a high contrast theme in Windows 10. White text, gray background. Pretty much identical to the screenshot that Hunam posted. Windows 10 theme management is trash, but the high contrast setting is mandatory for certain window elements to have custom colors.

The fact that it overrides colors in web browsers is an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE. Websites are designed with specific color themes to give their own contrast to different elements on the page (borders, links, buttons, interactive elements, mouseover highlights, text boxes, etc).

Disable this feature. It is not even needed in Brave as the Brave Appearance Settings already is outstanding for selecting a Dark or Light background. You can also change font colors and a host of other appearance settings that work for people who use High Contrast.

I had been wondering if there would be a solution since Chrome ended up having a similar problem.
Just saw the Forced Colors solution. Outstanding! Everything that update had broken for me, has now been fixed. Brave is back!

I can only find dark and light theme on anki desktop.
Ankidroid has four themes Light, Plain, Dark and Black. I use Black theme on Amoled screen.
When I view cards on desktop it does not feel consistent.
Please include Black theme or guide me to setting if it already has.

However, I really dislike the OSX "theme" - it seems too grey and sterile to me, and isn't something that I'd hoped would grow on me while using my uncle's iMac. (I seem to recall the only other option was to go completely grey with a charcoal color scheme.) ?

It's seems utterly bizarre that Windows, arisen from a business OS, should have such freedom to customize the UI globally than OSX - a product targetted at the more 'creative', right-brained and individualistic consumer. I would have thought it would be the other way around, with Windows restricting you a single grey theme, and OSX giving users the freedom to paint their user experience in whatever colors suits their personality.

I realize that restricting significant user customization of the OSX UI is done primarily to limit vectors for system destabilizing modifications, but basic theming (like color schemes) can still be implemented safely.

My two cents on the philosophy. The interface is dull and grey because it isn't important. I have no desire to see the interface. The content is what is important. Making the interface flashy and eye-catching would detract from what is really important.

As was pointed out, despite continual complaints and third-party "solutions" since they started making a color system, Apple has never offered any way to customize the UI, except for some very minor options.

Yep, I did that just before I made my original post. I figured I'd also see what the Mac community had to say - to see if it was an idea others liked as well, and also to get feedback (in case I was just plain ingnorant) and there was a way to change themes I didn't know about, or some third party theming utilities like Window Blinds or something out there.

Speaking for myself, the look of the UI has a tremendous impact when I spend hours a day working at the computer doing web development and digital imaging. (i.e. I'd be institutionalized within a week if I had to use Window's blue "Luna" theme that was clearly designed by students at a clown college while on LSD.)

You are wrong, Mac OS, all generations, was a very good and better OS just because it did not include such useless settings and aditions, and that is precisely why Linux is so sensitive to such useless settings and aditions. The more such stupidities are added, the more frequent crashes are reported.

You can get socks for your iPod, cases for Apple hardware in every conceivable color, style and material, and yet the thing you interact with the most Apple won't allow personalization beyond wallpaper.

If Apple implemented the themes and customization parameters, then it's fairly certain that it would not adversely effect stability. Personally I'm not interested in elaborate things like a transluscent zebra skin UI, but just a few color scheme options and configurations beyond what's currently available.

I've used Windows computers, both bought and built desktops and notebooks from Dell, for the last 19+ years that have always been stable. I can count on one hand the number of BSODs I've had with any version of Windows.

What I meant was I've always built my own systems to create a reliable system. Not having to suffer rickety, bloatware loaded Dells, Compaqs and other off the shelf computers with cheap components is exactly why I did custom builds...and why building solid systems for musicians and graphics clients was part of my business.

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