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Classic Explorer status bar is light gray on Windows 10 1809 dark mode (Classic Explorer status bar and toolbar don't change to dark mode in Windows 10) #121
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go in the Configuration of Open-shell menu, All Programms Skin => select smoked Glass, imho best regards |
Haven't changed for me. Besides i use windows 7 start menu, and smoked glass isn't available. |
I too have a light gray Status Bar after upgrading to the new Win10 1809 dark theme. Am I still able to select this "Smoked Glass" skin/theme somewhere via .ini editing? |
I think there should just be an option for for explorer. Dark / white. And make the dark Match the color of dark explorer. You don't want it linked to the shell theme. |
This have nothing to do with my initial claim. I'm talking about the status bar on windows explorer windows, as you can see on the screenshot. |
Didn't change anythinghing for me either the status bar remains white and even if it did work I don't want to use classic theme just for that. |
This is a known bug in the dark mode of Explorer. This is a Microsoft bug, not an Open-Shell bug. |
No. Status bar (that second one) is added/drawn by Though for now I have no clue how to do it :( |
Is the problem getting it to follow the skin color? Or can we not even compile a static dark version of the status bar? |
I think their saying that there trying to link that statusbar color in explorer to the applied theme in start menu. Correct me if I'm wrong? |
Well maybe it's indeed a windows bug. I see the status bar is created on ExplorerBHO.cpp line 1256:
I don't see it painting the background anywhere, so maybe |
Same with classic explorer toolbar. Still gray on dark (windows) theme, like the status bar. |
Still hoping for a fix |
any fix for this? |
Ah I see now. This was an MS bug, so I was just accustomed to seeing a light status bar there, but MS's one is now fixed. |
I'm working on getting the latest Windows 10 reinstalled on one of my Laptops again. I was doing some playing around with a few things (testing stuff , trying out other stuff, etc... etc...) and Windows 10 threw a fit by giving me that well known BSOD style errors. I've got 2 PC's and 3 Laptops (though I've got enough spare parts as well... LOL! ). So now I've got the hard drive out of the laptop and performing some tests in my PC (as a precaution) then I've got to clean it up good as new. Once that's done, I just pop it back in the Laptop and do some magic installing the latest Windows 10 build fresh as new. I just love spares for Developments with Testing and such! I've even got a bunch of working Android's (and parts) for backups/developments of my App's and such. When i get Windows 10 going, I'm going to see what I can do. I'm just not a big fan of Windows 10 myself but, I need to know it to help out here. That's enough jabber/geek talk... LOL! ~Ibuprophen |
Been watching this for a while. Im getting back into dev and will take a look too. Hopefully we get this fixed. I love dark windows with classic, better then any other UI out there and this will look so good all dark. Anyway back to trying to fix my graphics card and wifi and auto mounts working under another OS which is well know for its bugs. At least win is has proper plug and play. that's enough geek talk from me 2 lol |
Possibly related, using the Vista style navigation pane the icons and scrollbar also seem to be effected. |
a hint.. more Programmers, more fixes.. do you know WinNT Programmers, ask they are, if they want help .. also for the later WinNT like Reactos (it will comes in any case... and this for free for all under GPL) best regards |
I used to work with WinNT but, haven't really had the need to for a while. Maybe I should get it going again. Hmm... Maybe I can reparation the hard drive for a dual boot on my Windows 7 to add NT. Hmm... ~Ibuprophen |
first boot harddisk win7 and have a 1TB harddisk as 3rd one who i store the things .. and with bootmenu, like F12 or F9 or what ever can you call the boot menu out of the Bios, if's enabled .. in Linux works Virtualbox also really pretty.. so, .. well.. all is possible.. |
I would just simplify it by Partitioning my 2TB Laptop HDD in half. The computer would see it as if it were 2 separate HDD's. This way 1 partition would have Windows 7 & the other with WinNT in it. I would then create a dual boot menu so, when the Laptop boots up, there would be a menu to choose which one to boot into for 30 seconds to a minute (this is custom as it should be more than enough time to choose which one to select from). Of course, when the time period lapses, I would have a default OS pre-determined. It looks more complicated than it really is. It's a simple, and effective, way to do this. I used to do this when I used to dual boot Unix/Linux about a zillion years ago... LOL! ~Ibuprophen |
4 Primäre partitions, the first 2 for Win7 , one for WinNT, the 4th for Linux and Grub can maby managing all .. but if you reinstall kill Win7 your grub .. : well, the dualboot have i am also behind me ;) but a small ideen exchange is never bad :) 👍 your Blacky *bg* |
Ahhh... LOL! I'm kinda familiar with what you're describing. I do believe that a friend of mine has a similar/same setup on his Alternate PC. I have (legit ones of course) the Windows 7 Pro, 8.1 Pro, 10 Pro & NT on separate USB Thumb Drives. Well... I own pretty much all the Microsoft Software stemming back to MS-DOS 3.1. I've still got all 25 Official (3.14") Floppies of Windows 95 too LMAO! :-P For preparing the HDD partitions, I use the PartitionMagic Software and it's awesome too. I also use it because of the MicroSD's I prepare for the various Android devices I have. For Creating Updated (Windows OS) USB Thumb Drives, I primarily use the Rufus Software. That's a great piece of Software that I even helped out with (once in a blue moon/on a few occasions) within its Github Repo. I tend to stick with the tools I use as long as it works out for me. It's like that saying "don't fix what's not broken". Before I had retired, some of the qualifications I held (as a requirement) was a handful of Microsoft Certifications and I'm actually current as a registered Microsoft OEM System Builder too. There you go.... You pulled me into "jabbering mode"... LMAO! :-O ~Ibuprophen |
Likely known by most here but just in case I thought I'd mention an app named QTTab does change the white bars colour, to,I believe to whatever shade is selected in Win 10's personalise control panel. More fyi : Just as classic shell is enabled/disabled, QTTab's options (enabled/disbaled & "theme's/actions) are also accessible via the same method of View/Options drop down in an open explorer window (as well its own opened app ui). As said, all appears fine together with a glitch or 2 that is likely easily ironed out with the suitable set up choices but for now my icons are invisible due to QTTab making the white bar a black bar (as I want) but of course black icons are then invisible so I will be (when time allows) recreating the icons I've used so they are a light grey & thus my set up is usable (the image 2 above, which at the time of screen cap does have QTTab installed shows why I haven't used the 2 together for more than installation and basic tests. I'll return, provide some successful pics and results or? when time permits. Til then. L8rs |
The menu bar on my systems is black with white text while in dark mode (1909), regardless of classic shell being installed or not. The color Open Shell picks for the background of the Classic Explorer Bar seems arbitrary, after a brief look at the code. There's no reason why it couldn't pick it from a different Windows setting or, even better, a custom setting that's part of Open Shell itself. It's just another custom toolbar, and they can look like whatever you want. I'd try to fiddle with it myself but I've never tried to compile a big project like this before and I'm sure it would be hours before I got it to go, if ever. The Status Bar may be a different beast, I haven't looked at that part. |
The old "File Edit View Tool" menu bar that Classic Shell uses for its icons as well? |
Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but i recently upgraded my laptop to windows 10 from windows 7 and installed open shell ofc. But with the same settings in terms of skin and start menu style i get different colour on my laptop than i do on my desktop with the same settings in the options for openshell. also on my laptop only the clock part of my taskbar was changed to white colour when i changed the colour of it. The only difference is that my desktop uses an older version of openshell. How can i get the laptop version of my openshell to match my desktop one when i get different colours on the two with the same openshell skin settings. |
Fix, kind of... You'll need to get a copy of WindowBlinds (not free and it must always be running though not a terrible resource-hog) and then use this free theme: Unfortunately besides that WindowBlinds is NOT free this theme (the only one on the entire website since I last checked ~June 2020) this is the only theme to actually do an actual dark mode. BUT it adds a dumb pointless button the simply collapses a window. It messes with the window controls for Waterfox making them useless. There is an editor for *.WBA files and I have faintly found the reference to that damned fourth button. However I simply do not have the time to tinker until death. Since I was kind enough to post this much maybe someone will be kind enough to dig in to the WBA editor, fix this theme and post the working file for everyone.
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Still waiting on a real fix for this and not an extra 3rd party thing. |
See my mention above re WINAERO in short: you may simply have different colours set in the "Personalisation / Colours" settings - see if matching those helps As said above, winaero enables (allows you to select) actual BLACK should it be wanted, which MS disallows. [why? who knows]. They sacked half+ of their Win10 dev team a few years back (for some juicy inside info see you tube channel "Barnacules Nerdgasm" an ex miscrosoft team employee who despite having an exemplary record at microsoft, as many of his colleagues, "won" the chopped lottery when ms downsized despite windows 10 shall we say not being in a perfect ideal state when shoved out the door on us, for politeness sake. |
I happen to have a cough "copy" of Windowsblinds and did semi succesfully tweak an existing theme but felt it may have introduced some mild instability (lets face it we dont need any more as windows 10 stands) & for the benefit of white to black seemed offset by the additional resources used. We'll get there - i'm sure - maybe someone like nirsoft or sordum org will grow a clone of themselves and set them to task... they appear quite busy as is. :P |
bump. |
Any way to fix it? workaround? |
You guys know developers accept money, right? Like, they have bills to pay and 99.999% of the people they talk with can't or won't give them money while saying, "gimme gimme gimme!" If I really wanted this fixed I'd offer the main developer $100+. Most code is atrocious, so working on code to deal with someone else's code takes ridiculous amounts of time. Developers have lives, family and friends too so the best thing someone could do is start some sort of tip-jar and allow people to add a few bucks that get deducted / paid to the developer when the problem is fixed. No one here might be able to drop $100 or more to fix this problem though there certainly are a lot of people who could chip in $5. |
what do you think why Inkscape not really come in front, i have posted at they are a suggestion for autorun batch commands the switch yes for make default actions "-y" to have a possibility for let automatic png's move into svg's , best regards |
This directory: Contains *.msstyles files. There are a TON of options and no doubt one of them can be edited to address this issue. Unfortunately the program said that Windows rejected the theme though perhaps someone with some patience may want to try and edit an existing Aero theme? Here is the binary to edit *.msstyles files: |
Still not a fix for this issue? |
You know i wouldn't mind the fact that this issue is still present if it wasn't for the fact that I don't need 2 status bars... |
you know, who scream and have a behave like an douchebag, have rarely right ... and the best, any laugh about ;) |
Explain the need for two status bars then. Without broken English, if possible. |
It is possible to use either the Classic Explorer status bar or the built in Windows Explorer status bar.
I'm using WindowBlinds so I'm not sure if the remaining status bar will have an issue so you can alternatively use the built in status bar if you want:
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i bet it's setted up a wrong darkmode color in "#color" in the CShell code, instead should use a variable of WinNT with (a.e.)"%Nightshapecolor%" who is political more correctly and use it directly from the System-"color" if i be in able to presume that... in this case .. now is the question , exist some variable for the system ? |
Default status bar is horribly broken missing (free space), which is one of the major reason many of us installed this in the first place. It was a built in feature in previous versions of windows removed for no discernable reason. Their replacement of forcing you to navigate to and look at the drive tiles is just a waste of time. |
I'm confused. Do I need to download Classic Explorer instead of Open-Shell-Menu? I am not finding those options. Thanks. I just want to disable the useless white bar that Open-Shell-Menu created. Edit: never mind, just search Classic Explorer settings in start menu and you will be able to disable it. Thanks! |
Shout out to @Turk303 above! I've now basically got at least something vaguely acceptable! TL:DR - You can change the colour of the toolbar to a fixed colour using QTTabBar, but not the status bar. If you make it too dark then the menu items become unreadable. Here's the useful post from @Turk303 ! I installed QTTabBar from here This almost got me what I wanted but the colour was off. Going into the QTTabBar Options > Appearance in the Nav bar on the left > then to the Toolbar tab on the top > then to Toolbar background color... allowed me to choose any colour I wanted for the QTTabBar and this was automatically applied to all the toolbars, including of course the Classic Explorer one! Issues (some quite big possibly...)
For now at least this workaround is good enough for me. If anyone manages to find out how to change the font colour, please let me know, then it'll be almost perfect (apart from the fact this isn't a proper fix). A couple more points
Big thanks to @Turk303 again for his useful post! I'd almost given up! |
Nevermind, this is the answer |
I'm using dark mode and everything seems right except for the status bar.
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