I have Windows and all my other apps set to Dark Mode (almost everything supports it now). It's getting hard to read very small text, especially when it is dark text on a white background. I'm getting a little older and my eyes are not as good as they used to be. However since it's not universal to the OS I can understand why various programs don't consider it a 'pure' approach (eg: foobar2000's developer, though in that case the alternate theming plugin Columns UI does support full skinning). Programs such as MPC-HC for example appear to implement their own dark mode separate from the user's OS setting. It would be up to the dev's discretion whether to implement this given it's not officially supported. This can be done on earlier Windows versions as well though it's up to the user whether they trust the patcher.Ī workaround for non-UWP programs I came across was posted about on Stackoverflow and also a working example on Github which demonstrates an undocumented dark mode API introduced in Windows 10 1809. W10's dark mode API apparently isn't available to non-UWP based programs, hence why most of them don't support it and we're left with the strange state in W10 where some programs support it and others don't.įirst would be to patch the Windows theming to support unsigned visual styles and add a dark visual style (odd that Microsoft doesn't include one of their own tbh).
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