Caprine: Titlebar theming on Windows

Created on 12 Nov 2018  路  3Comments  路  Source: sindresorhus/caprine

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Is it possible to theme the title bar to be dark (and make the text/buttons white)?

Maybe Windows supports this, as they have dark theming elsewhere (Windows 10):
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waiting for Electron

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There was an Electron issue about this years ago, but it never went anywhere. When https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/15316 is fixed, we could at least add an option to follow the system dark mode, which should (in theory) change the title bar.

More about Windows dark mode: https://www.groovypost.com/news/preview-dark-mode-coming-windows-10-anniversary-update/

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There was an Electron issue about this years ago, but it never went anywhere. When https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/15316 is fixed, we could at least add an option to follow the system dark mode, which should (in theory) change the title bar.

More about Windows dark mode: https://www.groovypost.com/news/preview-dark-mode-coming-windows-10-anniversary-update/

Hey. This is the last thing that annoys me with dark mode on windows, so i looked a bit into it and found this:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-titlebar-windows
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I do not know enough about electron to validate if this is a viable alternative, and have to leave that to someone else.
The way i see it, only the top bar is missing the theming, and the rest can be achieved by hiding the menu bar:

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Also, here is an alternative where the github page and source code is actually available:

https://github.com/AlexTorresSk/custom-electron-titlebar

The first option of the three seems to be the favored option, that is also used in VSCode etc.:

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