WindowBlinds 10 Dark Theme?

Greetings,

Does anyone know if there is any Window Blinds 10 Dark Themes out there for use? Seen the latest Bogo deal, and wanted to make sure there was something I could use with it.

Preferably, without bugs / visual artifacts. 

Here is an example of what I am looking for:

http://windowsblinddev.deviantart.com/art/Oni-577704150

https://youtu.be/HwqV7RmScPM?t=6m34s

 

Thanks in advance for any information,

 

Plasma.

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Reply #2 Top

Are you positive? 

Last time i tried to install something alone the lines of that, only half of the features loaded, and the other half were default windows shell appearance. 

I guess I could give it a try, but its gamble for me, since I really only want it for the dark mode - and there doesn't seem to be any Windows 10 specific versions out there. I was hoping that the default package would contain such a theme, since its a popular and creatively easy to create from a graphic standpoint.

 

Reply #3 Top

Of course old skin would lack of newest OS parts since the intentions of it wasn't prepare for them,it has to be updated/upgraded by the skinners.;it's compatibility of issues I am talking about.  

For dark theme,you may tweak the colorize skin feature in Windowblinds. Not promise anything,but it's worth a try.    

Reply #4 Top

There are plenty of dark skins out there that work on 10. Some are Masters, some are not.

Anything done this year by LightStar will have a Windows 10 substyle, and most will have dark substyles.

Reply #5 Top

It was my understanding that WindowBlinds under Windows 10 cannot skin the Explorer window background, or make is transparent, making all of these skins with dark explorer backgrounds not work at all as expected.  Is that no longer the case, folks?  Thanks.

Reply #6 Top

The explorer background color for Windows 10 can be changed permanently in a skin using SkinStudio 10 and changing the Window background color in the Change skin colours area, and select the Show me the skin defined system colours in the drop down menu. The only problem with this is that is changes other areas to that color also, so using a really dark color may not work out well.

 

It can also be changed in Windowblinds 10 by clicking on the Modify style link, then the Change system colors button. Then in the list scroll to the bottom and select the System Colour: Window item, then click the Change colour button. Again though, this may cause problems in other applications, so a dark color is really not recommended.

Reply #7 Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 6

The explorer background color for Windows 10 can be changed permanently in a skin using SkinStudio 10 and changing the Window background color in the Change skin colours area, and select the Show me the skin defined system colours in the drop down menu. The only problem with this is that is changes other areas to that color also, so using a really dark color may not work out well.

 

It can also be changed in Windowblinds 10 by clicking on the Modify style link, then the Change system colors button. Then in the list scroll to the bottom and select the System Colour: Window item, then click the Change colour button. Again though, this may cause problems in other applications, so a dark color is really not recommended.
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Which isn't very intuitive... Or ideal

Quoting Excalpius, reply 5

It was my understanding that WindowBlinds under Windows 10 cannot skin the Explorer window background, or make is transparent, making all of these skins with dark explorer backgrounds not work at all as expected.  Is that no longer the case, folks?  Thanks.
End of Excalpius's quote

This is more or less the reason why I am asking. I don't want this piece of software if nobody has any solid bug-free themes for it that work with windows 10.

Seeing as that I needed to post to the fourms to gather information, this program is probably dead. I don't see anything on WinCustomize (like 600 outdated themes) or on deviantart (themes are 95% bright, other 5% being dark and outdated)

Reply #8 Top

Quoting IIIPlasmaIII, reply 7


Quoting LightStar,

The explorer background color for Windows 10 can be changed permanently in a skin using SkinStudio 10 and changing the Window background color in the Change skin colours area, and select the Show me the skin defined system colours in the drop down menu. The only problem with this is that is changes other areas to that color also, so using a really dark color may not work out well.

 

It can also be changed in Windowblinds 10 by clicking on the Modify style link, then the Change system colors button. Then in the list scroll to the bottom and select the System Colour: Window item, then click the Change colour button. Again though, this may cause problems in other applications, so a dark color is really not recommended.



Which isn't very intuitive... Or ideal


Quoting Excalpius,

It was my understanding that WindowBlinds under Windows 10 cannot skin the Explorer window background, or make is transparent, making all of these skins with dark explorer backgrounds not work at all as expected.  Is that no longer the case, folks?  Thanks.



This is more or less the reason why I am asking. I don't want this piece of software if nobody has any solid bug-free themes for it that work with windows 10.

Seeing as that I needed to post to the fourms to gather information, this program is probably dead. I don't see anything on WinCustomize (like 600 outdated themes) or on deviantart (themes are 95% bright, other 5% being dark and outdated)

End of IIIPlasmaIII's quote

 

So have you tried any WB skins on the site to see if they are "bug free" (which is nearly impossible)? Also, my Windows 10 looks and basically operates almost exactly like Windows 7. I get rid of all that BS that Microsoft added by using a great freeware program called OldNewExplorer. You should try it.