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Hi JanOscar,

Trying to reproduce the issue, but cannot so far. I wanted to try and recreate with your settings, it looks like you care using centered start, but wanted to confirm for sure. Any thing else running that you can thin of that might interfere with either WB or Start11

Paul Scroggins
Associate Technical Support Analyst

The beta version acts like this https://youtu.be/kLcbqk38KJE

Please don't post multiple posts on the same issue. That video you posted was on Windowblinds 10 on Windows 11 which is not compatible. Please carry on in your other thread.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Yes it did, thank you very much.   

The blurring oddity in the top image remains (no blur underneath the left end of the visible taskbar image), but the only skin I've found so far that I see that on is Lantana, so maybe that's more of a Lantana thing.

Thanks.

Quoting SimplexDesigns,

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Still not happy about the automatic dark mode feature still being enabled by default. Please for the life of everyone that has complained in all 3 beta threads. Disable it by default.You guys have hundreds of skins in the gallery and many that will never support the feature. Its not properly supported by themes yet and should not be enabled until you actually have a decent amount of skins to support it. I dont want to have to tell people my themes looking darker thinking its a bug when in fact its not. Please listen to your customers feedback on this feature.

 

Now some issues I have with WB11 skinning start 11.

#1 Posted this in beta 2 post and it never got answered. Is it possible to add margins to the top of the menus for either 10 or 11 styles, I cant seem to find any way of doing so like it can with windows 7 style.

#2 Is it possible to define font color for these new start menus as well or it it tied to the crappy dark/light mode system?

The item hover and scroll bars seem to not be loading from WB style rather be rendered via start11, is there any plans for those to be skinned by WB11 as well?

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I think you are missing something about the automatic dark feature.  It isn't a feature a skin has to support, it exists because skins lack dark mode support.  It would not be needed if skins had dark mode parts already.  Without it there would simply be other issues when an app assumes that it will be dark.  This wasn't an issue in the past but more and more apps are starting to add dark mode options.

I am afraid text colour is either light or dark on the menu.

You should be able control the margins using the extra settings options on the Advanced Values items on the Edit Win11/10 menus.

The scrollbars are not exposed to WB as we had not considered those.  It might be possible to expose those too, though without any size adjustment purely painting in the location etc they are already painting.

I do understand how it works. Works perfectly fine under WB10 on windows. In order to get light or dark icons and text I would just modify the color mode under windows settings like I do with WB11. However your OPTION for darkening the window frames added in WB11 messes with the themes. That should never happen unless the user wants that option enabled. This is 100% WB11 doing the darkening to the frames/buttons. Its not windows doing so. If my theme does not support dark mode and wont be getting it, I dont want WB doing any darkening of the frames and buttons. It should apply as it did with WB10. Some apps that I use are manually in dark mode and others I have that only support light mode. When this stupid option is on it tinkers with my style. Simply turning it off and my style looks perfectly fine as it did in WB10.

All we are asking is that button be off by default and when you apply a theme ask if you wish to enable that option. Its that simple. I dont know why you guys struggle to understand this. Like I said in the previous post. There are hundreds of styles in the gallery and most will never support the new dark mode textures mode. So by using those themes, it will do stuff like this.

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So, as my posting was removed: Will there any decent dark skin be included to test with WB11?