Thank you for ClassicThemeForWindows10

[Yaron10]

Hello,

@nptr kindly referred me to your project.

I have no experience whatsoever with creating/editing Windows Themes. I do have some experience with creating Firefox themes and - based on that - I can truly appreciate your work. -- You've done a brilliant job. Thank you so much. 👍

I have some questions and comments. I'd be grateful if you could help me.

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1. I assume I should use Theme For Win10 November 2019 Update 1909 for Windows 20H2. Is that correct?

2. An application menu is grayed-out on losing focus. Can you reproduce that? Here is Notepad -> about.

3. Background color gets lost.

I can't reproduce this error in a consistent manner, it just happens sporadically.

It just happened to me after returning from Hibernation. I'll keep testing it.

4. I'd like to set Active Title Background to RGB(10, 36, 106) and Inactive Title Background to RGB(128, 128, 128). Could you please refer me to the relevant entry in msstyleEditor?

5. There are some differences in the following elements between the Classic Theme on Win 7 and your theme on Win 10. Can they be changed?

Explorer's columns border and arrow. Win 7: Win 10:

Status Bar. Win 7: Win 10:

Window borders (note also the 3D effect under the Menu Bar). Win 7: Win 10:

6. I'd like to keep Win 10 default/native look in some elements.

Menu items - hover (color and background color). Here is hovering an item in Process Hacker.

Caption Buttons. In some windows the Caption Buttons are higher than the title. I suppose the title height can be changed, but the native buttons are not too bad. :)

ComboBoxes arrows. My system is RTL (Right To Left), Hebrew. I have my own build of Notepad++ in which I use both LTR and RTL in ComboBoxes and it has a major glitch.

7. This is not directly related to your theme but it's very important to me. :) I don't like ClearType. I've been using the following REG code to change most of the fonts used to Tahoma.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
"Segoe UI (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Light (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
"Segoe UI"="Tahoma"

Reading https://github.com/nptr/msstyleEditor/issues/15, I've changed the Task Bar font as well (msstyleEditor -> TaskBand2 -> Common Properties - Font). Could you please refer me to the entries for other elements (e.g. Explorer's context-menu, command bar and navigation pane)?

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I do hope it shouldn't be too much of a trouble for you. Thanks again.

[malvinas2]

Hello and thank you for your questions.

1. The version I use dates from 2019, but users reported that the latest version of the theme works flawlessly with the 2020 versions.
2. I imagine the application menu is grayed-out, because focus is on the version dialogue.
3. Yes, it mainly happens after logging in.
4. I am no longer using msstyleEditor, but VistaStyleBuilder. If I remember correctly WinAero Tweaker provides a simple option to change the color of active and inactive title bars.
5. I made a note on the todo-list, but I don't have much time in the moment to maintain the theme.
6. Process Hacker: Not sure if this is due to the theme or the program itself. Process Monitor from Microsoft Internals does a similar job and doesn't show these kind of problems. Yes, the caption buttons are slightly too big ;-) I will try to reproduce the problem with LTR and RTL, not sure how to do this as I am using the latin alphabet.
7. You should be able to switch off ClearType. If I understand you properly, you want to change the font as well from Segoe to Tahoma? Well, as @nptr mentioned the font is some kind of 'hard-coded' within the theme and I won't change anything regarding this, I am glad that it is working somehow....

[Yaron10]

Hello,

I made a note on the todo-list

👍

but I don't have much time in the moment to maintain the theme.

Too bad. :)

Thank you for the detailed reply. I appreciate it.

[Yaron10]

Hello again,

Could you please help us here? - I didn't want to bother you again, but we've reached a dead end. :)

Thank you.