Comments on: Visual Styles and themes in Windows XP http://damieng.com/blog/2005/01/24/visualstylesandthemesinwindowsxp?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=visualstylesandthemesinwindowsxp A .NET developer in silicon valley Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tomas Restrepo http://damieng.com/blog/2005/01/24/visualstylesandthemesinwindowsxp#comment-7847 Tomas Restrepo Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:24:08 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2005/01/24/visualstylesandthemesinwindowsxp.aspx#comment-7847 There are a couple more styles that run without patching uxtheme, though they are not official by any means: the Zune Theme and the dark variant of Royale. I do agree watercolor was oh, so much nicer than luna (let's face it, luna sucks big time!). The real downside about this is WPF, which has hardcoded support for the built-in luna and aero styles only, so if you're using any other style (signed or not) it automatically falls back into win2000-liek looks (and even then sucks at times; seems to have a performance issue with it). So much for styling when the framework has the support hardcoded! There are a couple more styles that run without patching uxtheme, though they are not official by any means: the Zune Theme and the dark variant of Royale.

I do agree watercolor was oh, so much nicer than luna (let’s face it, luna sucks big time!).

The real downside about this is WPF, which has hardcoded support for the built-in luna and aero styles only, so if you’re using any other style (signed or not) it automatically falls back into win2000-liek looks (and even then sucks at times; seems to have a performance issue with it). So much for styling when the framework has the support hardcoded!

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