designerwest Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Hey guys, I wondered if anyone knows why Microsoft didn't add the feature of title bar colour changing? It can only be black text colour on any colour background. It just doesn't make sense. I ask as I prefer a black windows theme (rather than bright pink, orange, purple, white and what not). I know you can patch windows, but that just isn't an option. Anyone know why Microsoft doesn't want its customers to change title bar colours? Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashpowell Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 No idea... you'd at least thought they'd make the text visible on dark colour schemes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Som Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 ya it's annoying , there used to be a tweak on the site http://www.door2windows.com, that would fix it, but it's only compatible with windows 8.0, they couldn't fix it for windows 8.1 either it seems... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKay Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Hey guys, I wondered if anyone knows why Microsoft didn't add the feature of title bar colour changing? It can only be black text colour on any colour background. It just doesn't make sense. I ask as I prefer a black windows theme (rather than bright pink, orange, purple, white and what not). I know you can patch windows, but that just isn't an option. Anyone know why Microsoft doesn't want its customers to change title bar colours? Chris It seems very stupid, if they didn't want us to change it to black they'd have removed that option. Tried asking on the Windows Support forum but the "Microsoft Engineers" are giving generic replies about performing clean installs and they "can't replicate the issue". Now the "engineers" have stopped replying to threads about that problem completely, any brand new thread complaining about dark grey text on black bars is deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Wan Kenobi Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 that bug drives me crazy! :angry: :argh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I don't think it's a bug, because the title bar text does appear to change color, from pure black (on anything other than black) to a just barely visible gray. It seems it was intentionally set that color, rather than going to a pure white like it should. Previous versions of Windows that used Aero didn't have this problem because the title bar text was always shadowed. Hopefully it's changed to just become white colored text... Or let the users set the color, like you've always been able to do in the Windows Classic themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp0 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Yea, it is annoying. I also wish they would allow more manipulation of the theme, like toggle taskbar transperancy & choose seperate colors for title bar & taskbar. Stuff like that. I don't think it's a bug, because the title bar text does appear to change color, from pure black (on anything other than black) to a just barely visible gray. It seems it was intentionally set that color, rather than going to a pure white like it should. Previous versions of Windows that used Aero didn't have this problem because the title bar text was always shadowed. Hopefully it's changed to just become white colored text... Or let the users set the color, like you've always been able to do in the Windows Classic themes. hmm, as far as I an tell it doesn't change, it's always a dark gray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Yea, it is annoying. I also wish they would allow more manipulation of the theme, like toggle taskbar transperancy & choose seperate colors for title bar & taskbar. Stuff like that. hmm, as far as I an tell it doesn't change, it's always a dark gray It's possible it doesn't and it could be just my eyes. But it does appear the text goes from pure black on any other color to a slightly lighter gray. Even going into the accessibility options, which otherwise lets you modify some options you normally couldn't, won't let you change the title bar text color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted April 9, 2014 Veteran Share Posted April 9, 2014 I never understood why Microsoft didn't code in something to flip text colours to white if the average RGB value falls below 128. Personally I think the colour choices offered by Windows 8 look horrible against black text - only light colours look decent. It was okay when glass was around since it had a white blur to soften the contrast. With colours such as 10 and 13 (red and green) you can barely make out the titlebar text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted April 9, 2014 Veteran Share Posted April 9, 2014 It's possible it doesn't and it could be just my eyes. But it does appear the text goes from pure black on any other color to a slightly lighter gray. Even going into the accessibility options, which otherwise lets you modify some options you normally couldn't, won't let you change the title bar text color. The colour Microsoft uses for the text isn't pure black (0,0,0). It's (40,40,40). Which means if you get the colour sliders to be just right, it looks like this: That being said, putting (40,40,40) text on a completely dark background - you can't see it at all. So you're correct that there's an intentional lightening up of the text. It's still possible to mess it up as shown above though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted December 23, 2014 Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2014 Bump Was looking for the classic dialog to change stuff like text color, but I guess that can't be done without applying a style patch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CG-88 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 When I move the slider to have completely black taskbars, as someone else mentioned, the text goes almost white. But say if you want dark grey, its possible to make both the same colour which is a stupid! I hope they correct this issue, or at least give the option to change the text colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trek Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 this was my most hated win 8 bug. It's fixed in win 10 thankfully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeMaster Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 this was my most hated win 8 bug. It's fixed in win 10 thankfully It's not fixed in the latest Insider build, but I guess you're probably using the latest leaked one available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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