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		nine_k on Dec 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Rewrote WinUI to WPF You of course could switch color schemes easily. But a lot of apps ignored them, wholly or partially, and just hard-coded colors. Try it with e.g. MS Word 6.

cosmotic on Dec 3, 2021 [–]

I find that as time passes, more and more apps are custom rendered and don't use system color settings. Peak support was way back in the nineties.

oneplane on Dec 3, 2021 | [–]

Peak support seems to be around the platinum/CDE time where everything was just happy to finally have consistent sets of widgets to work with.

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