Can you create a version of AC-E11 for Paint?

krlvm / AccentColorizer-E11

Accent Colorization for Windows 11 File Explorer Icon Glyphs

https://github.com/krlvm/AccentColorizer

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Can you create a version of AC-E11 for Paint? #17

Open Dhyfer1 opened 1 year ago

Dhyfer1 commented 1 year ago

Hi @krlvm

These days Paint has received an update in which it now has a dark theme, and I was wondering if you can create a separate version of AC-E11 for Paint or make AC-E11 have Paint support.

In Windows 11 Insider Dev, the path where the Paint glyphs are located is:

For the light theme C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Paint_11.2304.17.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets\theme-light
For the dark theme C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Paint_11.2304.17.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets\theme-dark

I don't know if this path is the same for the other insider channels or for the stable version of Windows 11, and I don't know if Paint with dark theme came to all versions of Windows 11, but the path I mentioned is the correct one for the Dev channel.

So can AC-E11 have Paint support?

krlvm commented 1 year ago

It seems to me that it is irrational to keep running a program that recolors icons in Paint all the time

Dhyfer1 commented 1 year ago

I don't understand why you say that. Does AC-E11 recolor icons all the time? As far as I know, AC-E11 is only work when the accent color changes. Also, Paint by itself does not recolor its glyphs and never has, the glyphs found in the paths I mentioned remain unchanged no matter how many times the accent color changes, and as you know the same thing happens with the file explorer glyphs without using AC-E11.

Besides, there are only 14 glyphs in Paint to recolor. What do you say?

krlvm commented 1 year ago

Does AC-E11 recolor icons all the time? As far as I know, AC-E11 is only work when the accent color changes.

Yes, but the process has to run in background to do that.

Maybe I will make the list of directories where AC-E11 looks for glyphs configurable, so it will be able to also patch Paint and other Microsoft apps

Dhyfer1 commented 1 year ago

Maybe I will make the list of directories where AC-E11 looks for glyphs configurable, so it will be able to also patch Paint and other Microsoft apps

That seems fine to me. I would like the next version of AC-E11 to be able to work with the glyphs in Paint and other apps 🙂 Thanks.