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Dark mode -- ok for a first step
Dark mode has been enabled. However, the top bar with the tabs doesn't go dark except for the active tab, and that looks weird. It happens because it doesn't override the taskbar setting like the old...
tomscharbach -- Right now, there is no consistency in the windows' dark mode. The attached pictures show the different ways Dark Mode is implemented in Edge Chromium, Edge Classic and File Explorer. They are layered in the following order:
Top: Edge Chromium
Second: Edge Classic
Third: File Explorer
Right now, Edge Chromium uses all parameters passed on in Windows' colour settings. Edge Classic doesn't. The top bar never changes to the background colour with transparency. As for File Explorer, it uses a mix of both (but not quite) of the two. It doesn't automatically pick an accent colour from the background when it is unselected. It does, however when it is selected it uses the background colour but Edge Classic doesn't.
Look at what happened to the second line of the second File Explorer image I snapped. Notice the word FILE is in green? That was the accent colour of my desktop image. Meanwhile, the first image shows two different tones of brown in the selected File Explorer window while different something totally different in Edge Chromium.
Right now, the entire Dark Mode scheme is a mess. As I said earlier, there is no consistency. That is one more reason I called this thread "a first step."
NicolSD By the way, Nichol, I meant to include this in my previous reply, but forgot. So let me say it now: I appreciate the effort you put into this forum. Whenever I see that you've posted something, I can count on it being something worth reading, something that is technical and something from which I can learn. Thanks for being an active participant.
tomscharbach Thank you for the kind comments. I am not a programmer but a techy user from the first days of personal computers who eventually made his way to becoming a computer tech (and a journalist) until he was forced to retire because of a totally different kind of MS, the disease kind. Back in the early 90s, I used to refer to Microsoft as Microsloth because Windows was so slow in those days.
I am both a Windows Insider and an Edge Insider because I want to see the changes in Windows development and contribute in my own small way. I spend long days in front of the computer and sometimes figure out how bugs can be reproduced.
I may not be a programmer but I still would find it useful to know where Microsoft when features are implemented and/or fixed. It would save me time spent on trying to reproduce bugs day after day.
NicolSD "I may not be a programmer but I still would find it useful to know where Microsoft when features are implemented and/or fixed. It would save me time spent on trying to reproduce bugs day after day."
Wouldn't we all ... The Edge team has made a small but useful advance in that regard -- see Dev channel update to 75.0.139.1 is live posted today. Progress not perfection, as it is said.
tomscharbach Posting about build 139.1 when 141.0 is in the wild? Yep, that's a good first step but the belated information is quite typical of MS. Have you ever checked Win10's Feedback Hub? Build information is always late in coming?