Better visual design and visual options

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Re: Better visual design and visual options

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admin wrote:These things are very difficult because of Windows Themes. I'm sorry that I might have raised false hopes but I cannot modify theme-related interface elements because that would certainly turn out real ugly frankenstein mess for many users.
No worries. As I wrote, this is just a fun project for me, I could have taken any other object for my exercises.
admin wrote:(What I thought you would do was something much more radical, like a new metro kind of approach to file management, lots of colorful rectangles and so on, totally beyond the good old tree-list-addressbar scheme.)
This has been put down the list - currently, I'm ribbon-izing XY. :whistle:

Again, rather fun than concrete wishes/hopes. :D


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Re: Better visual design and visual options

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Hi Don,

after you have made the layout of the tabs-BC-combo so fresh and tasty and because it's another rainy sunday, I have to resurrect this thread.
admin wrote:These things are very difficult because of Windows Themes. I'm sorry that I might have raised false hopes but I cannot modify theme-related interface elements because that would certainly turn out real ugly frankenstein mess for many users.
Apart from the tabs and breadcrumbs, are there other gui-components that arent't bound to Windows Themes (e.g. the background colors of various other bars)?


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Tabs, column headers, scrollbars, buttons (incl checkboxes, radio buttons): Themes. All other stuff is mine.

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admin wrote:All other stuff is mine.
:D

Thanks.

Edit
So, there're chances that some more colors could become configurable some day.


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Re: Better visual design and visual options

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I thought Tabs belongs to Don too? I can customize Tab's color
Only Column header, scrollbar; Statusbar, buttons are theme, in which, only the column header's color bothers me because it's right in the middle of screen (statusbar blend in well with Taskbar).
I'm a casual coder using AHK language. All of my xys scripts:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 243#p82488

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Tabs background is theme unless you are in classic mode.

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Yep! :beer:

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