Re: Winrar Dark Mode Windows 10
Amabella Tevebaugh
Microsoft news continues to roll out at a respectable pace. Diablo 4, WinRAR, and Microsoft Teams all made the headlines this week. With so many stories coming out each day, it's easy to miss a few pieces. Luckily, our weekly news roundup gets the biggest stories straight to you in bite-size pieces.
Diablo 4 is so hot right now, which isn't surprising given the setting of the game. As our writers lamented having to work rather than playing the game, they also shared a massive collection of articles about Diablo 4.
Our Managing Editor emphasized that it's important to go into the game without knowing spoilers in his Diablo 4 review. I'll leave you with Corden's words on the game and then let you enjoy it yourself.
Windows 11 will gain native .RAR support in the 23H2 update later this year. For years, .RAR has been a popular file archiving system. You may better recognize the name "WinRAR," which is a piece of trial software that has been the butt of jokes and memes for ages since it is easy to use it indefinitely without paying.
WinRAR popularized the .RAR format and has over half a billion users. While many have used the software without paying, it's safe to assume that WinRAR has earned some money over the years. The company responded to Windows 11 gaining native .RAR support in a funny way.
While Windows 11 will support .RAR natively, it's not known if the OS will fully replicate WinRAR's features. WinRAR supports configuring encryption types and passworded archives. There's a good chance that there will be a place for WinRAR even after Windows 11 gains native .RAR support.
Microsoft will end support for Cortana on Windows 11 and Windows 10 later this year. The news isn't that shocking, given that Microsoft recently announced Windows Copilot, an AI assistant that lives on the desktop.
"We are making some changes to Windows that will impact users of the Cortana app. Starting in late 2023, we will no longer support Cortana in Windows as a standalone app ... This change only impacts Cortana in Windows, and your productivity assistant, Cortana, will continue to be available in Outlook mobile, Teams mobile, Microsoft Teams display, and Microsoft Teams rooms.
We know that this change may affect some of the ways you work in Windows, so we want to help you transition smoothly to the new options. Instead of clicking the Cortana icon and launching the app to begin using voice, now you can use voice and satisfy your productivity needs through different tools."
A new version of Microsoft Teams launched in preview earlier this year. It promises better performance while using fewer system resources. Soon, it will become the default version of Teams on Windows.
The ASUS ROG Ally goes on sale on June 13, 2023. Ahead of the launch, ASUS sent out units of the handheld gaming console to reviewers. Unfortunately, the company appears to have sent the review units with "underbaked" firmware. Well-known tech YouTuber Dave Lee (Dave2D) shared that running the latest firmware results in a 15-20% performance boost.
That increased performance is good news for anyone interested in buying the device for themselves, but the situation is bad news for ASUS. The company effectively tanked reviews for the ROG Ally. Many reviewers complained about underwhelming performance of the device. That resulted in some canceling their preorders or losing interest in the handheld gaming console.
After 37 years, Microsoft Paint will finally support dark mode. The popular creative app can swap to dark mode in its latest preview version, which is available to Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels. Dark mode for Paint will roll out to everyone later this year.
Our experts review the latest games, PCs, and accessories every week. The hottest topic in gaming right now is Diablo 4, so you know our Managing Editor Jez Corden had to review it. He said "Diablo 4 might be Blizzard's most important, pivotal game since World of Warcraft, exceeding all expectations."
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Any setting that I could change to make odrive appear on windows 11 context menu. Or I have to stop using odrive on windows 11 until the developer add compatibility for windows 11 context menu? I saw that winrar has add the context menu for windows 11 in its new beta 6.10. Hope that odrive will add it soon
Beside that I think developer is a bit slow to address some user feedback. To me it make the software gos backward a little bit compare to fast growth of the other competitor. This feedback I summit is long time ago but still has no fix today. But now the new issue occur is context menu for windows 11
Better context menu icon for Windows dark mode - Troubleshooting - odrive Forum
Windows supports Light and Dark themes as a personalization option in Windows settings. Windows uses Light mode by default, but users can choose Dark mode, which changes much of the UI to a dark color. Users might prefer this setting because it's easier on the eyes in lower-light environments, or they might simply prefer a darker interface in general. Also, darker UI colors can reduce the battery usage on some types of computer displays, such as OLED screens.
We are working hard to broaden support for Dark mode without breaking existing applications, and to that end we're providing technical guidance for updating a Win32 desktop Windows app to support both Light and Dark modes.
The reason we use "black or dark" and "white or light" is because there are additional colors such as the Accent color that can tint various foreground and background colors. So you might in fact see light blue text on a dark blue background in some parts of the UI, and that would still be considered acceptable Dark mode UI.
In practice, this means that in Dark mode, most of the UI will be dark, and in Light mode most of the UI will be light. The concept of a background in Windows is the large area of colors in an app, or the page color. The concept of a foreground in Windows is the text color.
There are many approaches to implementing Dark mode support in an application. Some apps contain two sets of UIs (one with a light color and one with a dark color). Some Windows UI frameworks, such as WinUI 3, automatically detect a system's theme and adjust the UI to follow the system theme. To fully support Dark mode, the entirety of an app's surface must follow the dark theme.
Not all Win32 applications support Dark mode, so Windows gives Win32 apps a light title bar by default. If you are prepared to support Dark mode, you can ask Windows to draw the dark title bar instead when Dark mode is enabled.
This article provides examples of ways to detect system theme changes, and request a light or dark title bar for your Win32 application's window. It does not cover specifics of how to repaint and render your app UI using a Dark mode color set.
The first step is to keep track of the color mode setting itself. This will let you adjust your application's painting and rendering code to use a Dark mode color set. Doing this requires the app to read the color setting at startup and to know when the color setting changes during an app session.
To do this in a Win32 application, use Windows::UI::Color and detect if a color can be classified as light or dark. To use Windows::UI::Color, you need to import (in pch.h) the Windows.UI.ViewManagement header from winrt.
This function performs a quick calculation of the perceived brightness of a color, and takes into consideration ways that different channels in an RGB color value contribute to how bright it looks to the human eye. It uses all-integer math for speed on typical CPUs.
This is not a model for real analysis of color brightness. It is good for quick calculations that require you to determine if a color can be classified as light or dark. Theme colors can often be light but not pure white, or dark but not pure black.
Dark mode is defined as a dark background with a contrasting light foreground. Since IsColorLight checks if a color is considered light, you can use that function to see if the foreground is light. If the foreground is light, then Dark mode is enabled.
Windows doesn't know if an application can support Dark mode, so it assumes that it can't for backwards compatibility reasons. Some Windows development frameworks, such as Windows App SDK, support Dark mode natively and change certain UI elements without any additional code. Win32 apps often don't support Dark mode, so Windows gives Win32 apps a light title bar by default.
However, for any app that uses the standard Windows title bar, you can enable the dark version of the title bar when the system is in Dark mode. To enable the dark title bar, call a Desktop Windows Manager (DWM) function called DwmSetWindowAttribute on your top-level window, using the window attribute DWMWA_USE_IMMERSIVE_DARK_MODE. (DWM renders attributes for a window.)
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