How do I disable the annoying blending/fading/glass (one of these) of folderTAB colors? I've looked everywhere, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
If I set the folderTAB background to Black, it isn't black, but similar to (html color) #a0a0a0
Blue (#0000ff) selected background isn't blue, but light(ish) violet.
and so on.
The tabs are now always drawn using the Windows theme, and if colors are specified the theme gets blended with them.
We could add an option to draw the tabs using the old unthemed Win95 style (which Opus 9 used if you specified colors for the tabs) if you want that to come back. Would that make it how you want?
Well yeah, that would be nice.
Otherwise DOpus 10 seems excellent, although it was a bit of reconfiguring to do (especially colors and some keys).
Currently I get to set the tabcolor and such which would've been fine if it wasn't blended, as this currently makes it impossible to have black/dark tabs.
In v9 I had silver (#c0c0c0) on black for unselected tabs, and yellow on blue for the selected one, both of which isn't possible to recreate at the moment.
My eyes are a bit lightsensitive, hence I use a consistently dark theme if possible.
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Can you all make me screenshots like the one below, showing the color settings for your tabs and what your tabs + toolbars etc. look like?
I think I can improve the re-coloring we do so it works better with darker colors but I want to check it against the real way you want to use it (e.g. to make sure the tab borders don't get blended into the background completely).
for me, the way dopus 9 works is fine
the selected and unselected background are the exact same color you specify...
Here you have my foldertabs as they looked after upgrade to 10.
My settings from v9:
Unselected text: #c0c0c0
Unselected background: #000000
Selected text: #ffff00
Selected background: #0000ff
Background: #000000
Those didn't look ideal then either, but it achieved its purpose (making them fit a bit better in the custom theme I used).
I guess the option for this should be on the folder tab item..
i.e add a "blend with theme" (or similar) just below "use system colors".
If checked, use current behaviour (blend or whatever), if not, use DOpus 9 behaviour (i.e the color is used with no blending etc, as in dopus 9).
The rest of the theme/colors looks ok (I use imagebackgrounds for toolbars, to the right foldertabs).
Btw, a little related question about something I've noticed about the "blend" options (and possibly a bug for one of them).
Is it intentional that the less opacity used (closer to 0), the closer the resulting color is to white?
Usually a reduction in opacity would result in darkening the original color (and the background might show through).
It seems you have both..
My config:
Tree and File display has #000000 (black) background.
"Use visual style to draw items" is unchecked.
"Blend row and column" is unchecked.
"Blend selected items with column colors" is unchecked.
Selected background is #0000ff (blue) for both.
Selected color is #ffff00 (yellow) for Tree and #ffffff (white) for File display.
if you enable "fade selected item colors when tree does not have focus" then the color becomes lighter the closer opacity comes to zero.
if you enable "fade selected item colors when file display does not have focus" then the color becomes darker the closer opacity comes to zero,
Original focused unblended color, file item:
Both tree and file display using 30% opacity, but has quite different result:
Tree display:
File display:
The blending for foldertabs has a similar result as "tree display".
If I set both to 0%, then Tree display ends up with the background color #e0e0e0 (according to snagit eyedropper), and
the filedisplay has the icon tinted with blue, otherwise the main black background of the filedisplay.
The tree selection colour was being blended with the system window color, rather than the tree's actual color (which is the same by default but not if you've overridden it). I've put in a fix for that.
Nice.. btw, is the same happening with the foldertabs? On my system the standard tabcolor seems to be black on white (such as in the file properties dialog).
I mean, since they seem to progress in the same way.
If I set "selected background" for the tree to black (i.e black selection background on black tree background), and fade enabled, and unfocus it, then it has a similar color as the unselected
color as the foldertabs I posted above.
Thanks for the quick fix for the tree/file blend in the new build. it works nicely.
Now it's apparently only the tab issue remaining in this thread 
That will be in the first 'proper' update. The update that went out was just a quick one to fix a crash, but included the tree blend change as it was simple enough to go out right away.
Is this been fixed somehow? My tab colors are still not matching with what I set.
Turn off Preferences / Display / Options / Use visual styles to draw folder tabs.
