Sync dark/light theme with Windows 10

[xmha97]

The latest version of windows has a dark theme, which changes elements such as context menus to be dark, so if I schedule windows to change to the dark theme automatically at night, it wouldn't affect win10widgets, because all elements are skinned.​

[xmha97]

The configuration can be queried in the registry's following location:

• Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize
• Value: AppsUseLightTheme

When the value equals 0 (DWORD), it means it is in dark mode. Altering the value triggers immediately Windows Explorer to go/exit dark mode.
Some resources:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53501268/win10-dark-theme-how-to-use-in-winapi
• https://github.com/ysc3839/win32-darkmode
• microsoft/terminal#277 (comment)

[MinhThienDX]

Thank you for this discovery.
If you can create a pull request to integrate the detection of this registry value into win10widgets, I will merge into this repo as soon as possible.

[MinhThienDX]

@xmha97 There is light mode of this skin at #10, please take a look at it.

[xmha97]

Thanks for supporting the dark theme.
But I want the widget theme to be synced with the Windows theme.
Like Google Chrome:

That is, when Windows is light, the widget is also light.
And when Windows is dark, so is the widget.
Reopen this issue if its implementation is possible.

[xmha97]

cc: @MinhThienDX

[MinhThienDX]

Sorry but currently I don't have the time to do so 😥