Changing windows colors (advanced)

from Stardock Forums

Hi,

I'm making a new dark skin for windows seven.
But ha have several problems to modify some elements:

- I'dlike to change the control panel white background, to match with my skin.

I found how to change the color of the text elements in skinstudio, not for the background:

- The same for windows copy popups or uac popups:

unable to find in skinstudio where to change the white background.

- I d'like to change the search bar text color (1) ent the library green title color.

Does anyone knows how th change that?

Thanks a lot for your response, sorry for my bad english.

windowblinds
2,498 views 1 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

We would recommend against the use of very dark themes as there are applications out there which will assume black is an acceptable text colour and black text on near black backgrounds is not a good mix.  Likewise some colour aware applications will pickup your white dialog text colour and use it against a hardcoded light background and so again be unreadable.