New customization tool allows users to add additional style modes to Windows 10
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Stardock announced a new customization tool today. Curtains allows users to apply new styles along the lines of Dark Mode and Light to Windows 10.
Taking advantage of the groundwork built to support light and dark mode, Curtains includes several new styles including Fluent, Cairo, and Crystal mode that enhance the look and feel of the Windows UI along with apps that already support light and dark mode.
"The advantage of using a program like Curtains is that it's essentially just adding new 'modes' to Windows," said Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock. "It already works with high DPI displays and your existing programs. This gives users a little extra touch of customizing the Windows experience."
In addition, Curtains also includes styles that allow users to switch Windows to looking more like Windows XP or Windows 95 as well as alternative operating systems.
Users can easily create and share their own styles using the built in style editor. A Curtains style can change everything that Light and Dark mode can change, including the Start button, title bar buttons, and title bar coloring. It also supports tweaking gradients, shadows opacity, and hundreds of other small elements of the Windows GUI.
"Curtains makes it very easy for people to make their own styles," said Wardell. "There are a lot of customization features that have been buried in recent years such as font faces and sizes, detailed color choices and much more. Curtains allows people to adjust all of that and save it with their style easily.”
The beta version of Curtains will be available on Stardock's Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements starting next week. Object Desktop includes programs such as Fences, Start10, Groupy, SoundPackager, DeskScapes and Multiplicity. Visit www.objectdesktop.com to download it.
Visit the Curtains webpage for more information.
Hi again, Neil. I'm really sorry for being such a pain for you. This app is great, to be honest. I really like it. It will be a great companion app to WB and Start 10. Anyway, you can see all my settings in the above pic. As for the taskbar tray text color, it's always white. It doesn't matter what Curtains style is used, it's white. It changes depending on the WB skin.
Stay safe, everyone!
The feedback here has been great and very helpful.
Just a reminder; if you are seeing any issues with Beta 1, please post them to the following thread with the guidelines for doing so noted in the opening post:
https://forums.stardock.com/499663/
Again, your feedback and participation in the beta is very much appreciated.
Sean DrohanStardock Support Manager
Hi again, Neil. I'm really sorry for being such a pain for you. This app is great, to be honest. I really like it. It will be a great companion app to WB and Start 10. Anyway, you can see all my settings in the above pic. As for the taskbar tray text color, it's always white. It doesn't matter what Curtains style is used, it's white. It changes depending on the WB skin.Stay safe, everyone!
Which version of Windows 10 are you using?
Also did you override light / dark mode from the settings either in personalisation in the OS or instead on the styles page of Curtains?
Neil, I owe you an apology and a steak dinner. The version of windows on my rig was 1809 and it wouldn't update so i thought it was the latest version. it wasn't. I forced it to update to version 1909 and everything pertaining to Curtains is working great now. I'm so sorry for bothering you when it was my rig all along. I didn't know but it was still my fault.
So far very nice app, worth my resub IMO.
One thing I am really digging is it allows my cores to go into sleep mode, WB wasnt and was driving my OCD nuts.
Locking thread.
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