Curtains - Release Candidate 1 (RC1) issue report thread (Closed)

Changelog for Curtains Release Candidate 1

• Skin lists on the local and online tabs now scroll vertically rather than horizontally
• The entire window can now be resized to make the area for the lists larger
• UI resizing has been enhanced and default sizes will be wider on larger screens
• List visuals tweaked to show a line of description where possible (unless very small size)
• UI prompts about various things automatically
• Welcome screen on startup
• Fix for inactive button backgrounds not applying on non-universal apps
• Fix for close button having an extra X over it at 125% scaling in Universal apps
• Fixed scrolling the combo boxes on the buttons tab getting stuck if you use the wheel
• Tweaked UI visuals to increase contrast on buttons for those with less good vision
• Update checker changes
• Editing no longer applies the style now unless you pick it
• Various places no longer prompt about applying a background when you already have that style applied
• Editing screen preview shows default background now correctly
• You can now set no default background so you can include backgrounds without forcing them on a user
• Authors can now include additional suggested colors for accent, secondary and third
• Authors can now remove the option to pick other colors other than the suggested ones for secondary and third colors
• Light/dark mode is now saved on a per style basis
• Fixed an issue when editing a skin causing the UI to get stuck when switching to edit
• Fixed fullscreen universal titlebar button bar being one pixel lower than expected
• Fixed crashed explorer restart not having correctly painted taskbar when Start10 is not running.

Known issues:

For any issues that are reported, and that can be reproduced \ verified, they will be listed as 'known issues' and itemized here.

With the release of Curtains RC2

https://forums.stardock.com/500518

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Thanks to all that contributed

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

I like the resizable window and vertical scrolling!  It feels a lot more like a normal windows program now.  The prompt to close open UWP apps is a nice touch, and I like the addition of suggested colors.

It doesn't look like any UWP apps are being styled, though.  I tried toggling the global "apply styles to UWP apps" and manually changing the per-app settings, but nothing seems to take.

In the suggested colors section, allowing double-clicking to edit a color would make it easier to fine-tune them.  Maybe also preload the currently-selected color in the color dialog box when you click [Add], instead of always defaulting to the accent color.

Win10 v1909 build 18363.900

Are the Universal Apps supposed to be getting skinned at this point?  Looks like all I'm getting is frame shadows. I do have the option checked "Apply styles to compatible Universal Windows applications".  This is Midnight:

Thanks.

Quoting DaveRI, reply 5

Win10 v1909 build 18363.900

Are the Universal Apps supposed to be getting skinned at this point?  Looks like all I'm getting is frame shadows. I do have the option checked "Apply styles to compatible Universal Windows applications".  This is Midnight:



Thanks.

The non styling of the Universal apps is a bug in the build.  We will be sorting that for release.

Thanks Neil.

"Inactive" or "InActive" ?

Thankfully it is case insensitive, but I will get that sorted.

I think windows button backgrounds are acting very strange.
Here is a simple theme to test this. The theme uses the same image for all button backgrounds.
Preview looks completly different as the "real" windows buttons.

Thanks for reporting this.

Whilst there does seem to be a margins issue there which we will investigate, I suggest that you do not use such small images.  As the images will be bilinear filtered when drawn you will end up with gradients not solid colour blocks which I imagine is not what you want.

Please forgive me if i've overlooked anything already known etc - I noticed the start menu doesn't seem to show any transparency - (this is probably something I'm overlooking and/or is listed as a known already) but thought i'd mention.  -  feel free to remove/delete if this is posted in the wrong location.

Thanks!

I have a problem with it not showing me colors in the taskbar, on active windows, etc after i first log into windows. I have to load up curtains, change to another theme, and change back for the colors to work.

Quoting muggerfugger, reply 13

I have a problem with it not showing me colors in the taskbar, on active windows, etc after i first log into windows. I have to load up curtains, change to another theme, and change back for the colors to work.

Reduced 72%

Original 1149 x 127

Reduced 75%

Original 1103 x 90

If you have the OS option set to pick accent colour from your wallpaper this would be why as it gets set on login to the colour from your wallpaper which in that case would be grey.

alright thanks. disabled the option in windows.

I am hardly missing the various Painting margins options we have in SkinStudio...

Any plans to add them?

I am also hardly missing an option to use different windows title bars (and borders) for light and dark mode... it's nice to switch between light and dark mode, but the title bars stays the same (except recoloring).  

Hi 

Is there a way to disable additional caption layer ( like persona style background buttons ) for windows which only display close glyph ? 

It fits ok when 3 buttons are available but also for a lone close button ,so the visual result isn't very nice with