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Mike Kruzel
Copper Contributor
Oct 17, 2019

Sysinternals dark mode?

Can any of the utlities get a dark mode?

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  • Cibavision's avatar
    Cibavision
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 22, 2022

    Mike Kruzel 

    Why don't ask  Mark (https://www.deviantart.com/markrussinovich/gallery) to rewrite Sysinternals in Electron?

     

    There is so much overhead in how Microsoft handle themes, dark/light modes, colors that would probably completely betray Sysinternals philosophy. 

    Luckily  nobody is going to touch those tools until Russinovich is around

     
     
    • Mousefluff's avatar
      Mousefluff
      Iron Contributor
      Nov 02, 2022

      CibavisionIt's actually not that difficult, but only some Sysinternals Applications would benefit from that to begin with. If you don't want to use WinUI, then of course you'd have to create a UWP App:

       

      "Some Windows UI frameworks, such as WinUI 3, automatically detect a system's theme and adjust the UI to follow the system theme." -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modernize/apply-windows-themes

       

      "Comparison of WinUI 3 and WinUI 2" -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/#comparison-of-winui-3-and-winui-2

       

      "WinUI" -> https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/

       

      "Windows::UI::Color" -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.color

       

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