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		tinus_hn on Jan 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowermen... The fact you can doesn’t mean apps do. They probably fixed it now, but this is what Microsofts own explorer looked like in 2018 with Dark Mode: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/microsoft-adds-a-dark-theme-to... You can guess about the support in third party apps.

userbinator on Jan 23, 2021 [–]

For comparison, Windows 98 dark theme:

https://i.imgur.com/jVM9dUA.png

tinus_hn on Jan 23, 2021 | [–]

Windows 98, when most apps still used normal widgets.

As an example these days the Windows OS includes Microsoft apps that are built using the QT toolkit (OneDrive). That’s the example developers follow.

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