highlight colour on start menu

Please refer to a similar past thread: https://forums.stardock.com/513326/start-menu-highlight-color-and-transpanency-start11

The highlight is basically invisible when using Windows 11 style on Start11.

See the example below. Due to the very low contrast of the highlight it is difficult to tell which menu item is highlighted.

If I select "Modern Style", there is a better contrast. This is what I'm using as a workaround.

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Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. But, if you wish to have a better contrast on highlighted tile. You can apply menu background. And you should see something like screenshot below. Do know you can load any other custom image that you like.

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Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

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Thanks for the response. I have found a workaround which is to use a different theme. I was trying to let you know that I think that this is a usability issue on the app that perhaps your development team might want to address, as the out of the box experience when using Windows 11 style is not as good as it can be.

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Hello,
I have forwarded your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their review. We appreciate your feedback.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

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That would all best based on the users system/start11 colors and transparency settings

Paul Scroggins
Associate Technical Support Analyst

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I think that an application can determine what the accent colour is via the appropriate API regardless of what the user's theme is.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/signature-experiences/color

At present, there is a hard-coded colour which probably only works if the user is using a dark theme.

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Quoting BoisterousOrca,

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I think that an application can determine what the accent colour is via the appropriate API regardless of what the user's theme is.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/signature-experiences/color

At present, there is a hard-coded colour which probably only works if the user is using a dark theme.

The modern style uses the accent colour.

We do not use this for the Win11 menu as the native menu does not use colour for those.

That said it looks like Microsoft added an edge to the keyboard focus now for the menu to make it more obvious so we should look to do the same.

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