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[feat] Add the color properties of the taskbar button to the theme XAML

Open anzz1 opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

Currently you cannot change the color scheme of the taskbar button, only the app window itself. Exposing this property in the xaml file would allow people to change the coloring (and maybe an option to choose an transparent brush instead of a solid one).

In Win7 the taskbar button currently looks like this, otherwise the app functions on Win7 absolutely fine (with the exception of "Replace start menu search" option obviously not working as it's targeting Win10). Taskbar

anzz1 avatar Mar 15 '22 23:03 anzz1

I second this. Making the toolbar background transparent would adapt it automatically to any customization applied to the Windows taskbar (the snapshot below shows Windows 10 taskbar with one of the Stardock Curtains themes)

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Wrong-Code avatar Apr 15 '22 09:04 Wrong-Code

The background color of the search button should be transparent already as can be seen here: grafik

@Wrong-Code Does the problem disappear if you uninstall/disable Stardock Curtains? I have no experience with that tool.

Also regarding @anzz1 I don't know if deskband transparency is supported on Windows 7. I would have to try it on a fresh installation maybe when I get the time. Then I could also try if there is an easy way to get the start menu replacement to work. But, to be honest, since Windows 7 reached EOL already I consider this pretty low priority at the moment.

srwi avatar Apr 15 '22 09:04 srwi

@stnkl Yes, the problem disappears if I restore the standard Windows 10 theme. However I've just discovered that the issue is exactly the opposite: doing some experiments I enabled the semi-transparent toolbar, and from the two snapshots below it's clear that there are incompatibilities between your toolbar and the way Stardock Curtains skins the taskbar. Unfortunately I can't say which it is.

1st snapshot is with standard Windows 10 theme,

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2nd snapshot is with one of the provided Curtain's themes. The toolbar button is completely transparent and it draws its glyph on top of the content of the window behind the taskbar.

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Wrong-Code avatar Apr 15 '22 17:04 Wrong-Code

@Wrong-Code I installed Stardock curtains and can not reproduce the problem. The icon background is perfectly transparent for me. How can I reliably reproduce the problem?

srwi avatar Jun 16 '22 17:06 srwi

All styles are now exposed in the 1.0.0 release. This way all colors can be changed individually.

srwi avatar Jan 27 '23 18:01 srwi