Dark mode ignoring Win32 system colors is not incompetence. It was _intentional_.
replyIntentional malice, in other words. A stupid attempt at pushing UWP.
But they had dark themes for the XP theming engine, e.g. the Zune theme, didn't they? They could make the dark mode switch to a dark theme for XP-style themed controls and configure dark colors for the Win32 system colors.
replyOnly a very small minority of users actually care about dark mode. It is not a general expectation for software, as loud as those users may be on forums like this one.
replyAnd how do you know this? I decided to check myself, looked for dark mode statistics on android, and:
reply>Dark mode is used by 81.9% of 2,500 Android users on their phones, in apps, and in other situations. 9.9% alternate between the light and dark
So it's the other way around. Only a very small minority of users actually care about light mode.
I think android is a big difference here. What about excel or Google sheets? Word?
replyIf you're building win32 you're not targeting android.
On Apple platforms is very uncommon to find apps that only support light mode. The only one on my phone is the app for my old Chinese robot vacuum.
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