But what is preventing a less fancy but very effective solution? Something philosophically like this? You don't have to make it use the Official Windows Method, or design support for themes in general. But it doesn't have to be done the super-elegant and completely integrated way. It's been some time since I did any coding, but though I can see there might still be minor issues in doing it in a fancy way to support Windows etc. These days almost every app I see has a Dark Mode option - it seems hard to believe it's that difficult when apps that are far smaller and much less popular have implemented it. That's sad, because I finally gave up on my old tagger and want to use Mp3tag quite a lot in its place. I felt like I need to put on sunglasses to use it.

When I started Mp3tag, it was like being blasted in the eyes with a spotlight. I have Windows and all my other apps set to Dark Mode (almost everything supports it now). It's getting hard to read very small text, especially when it is dark text on a white background. I'm getting a little older and my eyes are not as good as they used to be. However since it's not universal to the OS I can understand why various programs don't consider it a 'pure' approach (eg: foobar2000's developer, though in that case the alternate theming plugin Columns UI does support full skinning). Programs such as MPC-HC for example appear to implement their own dark mode separate from the user's OS setting. It would be up to the dev's discretion whether to implement this given it's not officially supported. This can be done on earlier Windows versions as well though it's up to the user whether they trust the patcher.Ī workaround for non-UWP programs I came across was posted about on Stackoverflow and also a working example on Github which demonstrates an undocumented dark mode API introduced in Windows 10 1809. W10's dark mode API apparently isn't available to non-UWP based programs, hence why most of them don't support it and we're left with the strange state in W10 where some programs support it and others don't.įirst would be to patch the Windows theming to support unsigned visual styles and add a dark visual style (odd that Microsoft doesn't include one of their own tbh).

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