application background coloring?
Saturday, August 18, 2007 by JEEPFREEKSCOTTY | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Hey there.. kind of new here..
Have a question.. I currently have "My Matrix 2" Windowsblinds theme running. However, I'm curious if you can change the background coloration/text color of individual apps/windows?
The theme sets the background to almost black and the text to green.. "ala matrix monochrome".. which is cool for some things.. but outlook, word, excel gets kind of messy that way.
Is there a way to disable background/text coloration per application? My assumption is that windowsblinds changes the windows "theme" (see desktop properties, appearance).. and as such, this change is global and cannot be controlled per application from this applet (windowsblinds).
Yes, I have already assigned "per application" permissions to iexplore, outlook.exe, etc.. however, that just controls the "Shell" of the window or application. The background/text coloration within the app seems to be controlled via windows themes (from which is controlled by windowsblinds).
Confused yet?
Gee, hope not.. anyway.. hope someone can help.. the only other option is to find a different theme.. which would suck because I really love the titlebars and such for "my matrix 2"
Is it possible to assign different themes to different parts of the windows? IE: use "my matrix 2" windowsblind theme applied to titlebars, taskbar, etc.. and some other windowsblind to do the "theme" coloration of windows?
Thanks!
Have a question.. I currently have "My Matrix 2" Windowsblinds theme running. However, I'm curious if you can change the background coloration/text color of individual apps/windows?
The theme sets the background to almost black and the text to green.. "ala matrix monochrome".. which is cool for some things.. but outlook, word, excel gets kind of messy that way.
Is there a way to disable background/text coloration per application? My assumption is that windowsblinds changes the windows "theme" (see desktop properties, appearance).. and as such, this change is global and cannot be controlled per application from this applet (windowsblinds).
Yes, I have already assigned "per application" permissions to iexplore, outlook.exe, etc.. however, that just controls the "Shell" of the window or application. The background/text coloration within the app seems to be controlled via windows themes (from which is controlled by windowsblinds).
Confused yet?
Gee, hope not.. anyway.. hope someone can help.. the only other option is to find a different theme.. which would suck because I really love the titlebars and such for "my matrix 2"
Is it possible to assign different themes to different parts of the windows? IE: use "my matrix 2" windowsblind theme applied to titlebars, taskbar, etc.. and some other windowsblind to do the "theme" coloration of windows?
Thanks!
JEEPFREEKSCOTTY
Reply #2 Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:38 AM
So, with that, I will basically be modifying the theme I have to suit my own tastes? and thus, creating my own theme then based on "My Matrix2" theme?
Basically I'd like to retain all the windows "shell" stuff from that theme.. I just want to alter the coloration of certain apps..
I appreciate the lead.. I'll check it out!
Reply #2 Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:38 AM
i believe you will find most of what you want to change (and stick) would be done with SkinStudio
So, with that, I will basically be modifying the theme I have to suit my own tastes? and thus, creating my own theme then based on "My Matrix2" theme?
Basically I'd like to retain all the windows "shell" stuff from that theme.. I just want to alter the coloration of certain apps..
I appreciate the lead.. I'll check it out!
Bebi Bulma
Reply #3 Saturday, August 18, 2007 4:06 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, August 18, 2007 4:06 PM
You can change all the classic colors in SkinStudio (see screenshot for a little overview).
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Reply #1 Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:02 AM