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  • Re: Colours etc. in 10/11

    From NY@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Aug 20 04:33:18 2025
    On 19/08/2025 14:52, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    They also wanted to simplify the personalization UI for touchscreen
    users, which meant hiding the complex element-by-element customization.

    I think that is the real reason: bring everyone down to the same low
    level :-) If desktop something that touch screen can't, rather than add
    the functionality to tablet, remove it from desktop. Cynical? Moi?

    I can remember Win 95, 98, 2000 or XP having tools that allowed very
    fine control of individual screen elements such as "shadow on bold text
    on a dialog(ue) box" (maybe I'm making that one up) for those people who wanted to tweak to that level.

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  • From John K.Eason@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Aug 21 04:18:00 2025
    In article <10834kc$1b5b$1@dont-email.me>, G6JPG@255soft.uk (J. P. Gilliver) wrote:

    On 2025/8/19 19:33:18, NY wrote:
    On 19/08/2025 14:52, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    They also wanted to simplify the personalization UI for
    touchscreen
    users, which meant hiding the complex element-by-element
    customization.

    I think that is the real reason: bring everyone down to the same
    low level :-) If desktop something that touch screen can't,
    rather than add the functionality to tablet, remove it from
    desktop. Cynical? Moi?

    YANA!>
    I can remember Win 95, 98, 2000 or XP having tools that allowed
    very fine control of individual screen elements such as "shadow
    on bold text on a dialog(ue) box" (maybe I'm making that one up)
    for those people who wanted to tweak to that level.

    I don't think you're entirely making it up: I do remember
    encountering
    shadowing, in something like that, and being very surprised.

    Although not all the colours can be transferred to Windows 10, I've more-or-less
    got the colours the same as on my W7 system simply by copying across the settings
    from the W7 Registry.
    They're in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors], as they are in Windows 10.
    The gradient colours don't work in W10 but I have the window title bar, menu hilights, window background and a few others the same in both W7 and W10 here.
    Copy both keys into two windows of a text editor and compare them side by side.
    --
    Regards
    John

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