Dark mode no longer working independently of taskbar after Windows Update

[SupDos]

After installing the April 12 KB5012599 update, the search UI only shows up in light mode, no matter what theme is picked in the BeautySearch installer

Win10 20H2, 19042.1645

Changing this setting makes it show in dark, while previously it showed in dark no matter what

[krlvm]

search UI only shows up in light mode

How does it look?

[SupDos]

It looks like this:

when it should look like this even if the taskbar accent color is enabled:

(thats how it worked days ago, and the only thing that has changed is this windows update)

[krlvm]

It is not Light Theme, just starting with the latest Windows update, it shows accent color not only on Start Menu, but also on the Search Window.

[SupDos]

You're right, just thought it was light theme because it wasn't the usual dark theme lol

Is there any way to force no accent color in search even when the accent color is enabled for the taskbar and start menu?

(Is that something in scope of BeautySearch at all?)

[krlvm]

You can disable Enhanced Acrylic Design to achieve this look.

If you want to make it completely dark, open C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\cache\Local\Desktop\BeautySearch.js in any text editor and add this code to the end of the file:

injectStyle(`
    .${DEF_DARK} {
        background: #1f1f1f !important;
    }
`);

Then restart Search App, for example, by clicking the circle arrow ("Refresh") button in BeautySearch Installer.

[SupDos]

Thank you, that worked! Though for a brief moment it still shows the accent color while I assume the full search menu is loaded in

2022-04-19.22-20-30-1.mp4

I'm assuming that this isn't something that can be fixed since that isn't part of what is being injected by BeautySearch? If so I will just have to learn to live with this. Feel free to close the issue if there's nothing that can be done, thank you for helping!

[krlvm]

Yes, unfortunately this is shown before the WebView is rendered
I will add this option as an optional tweak in the next release

[krlvm]

Available in v1.14