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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
What's even more ridiculous is that starting in Win 8 you are forced to use a high contrast theme to change background colors. High contrast themes mess a lot of apps up.
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For me, the feature that frustrated me the most with the Windows 8 was the inability to change the shape of window borders and decorations.
I was surprised how much I disliked the flat look and sharp corners of windows. I suspect that this was done deliberately ugly to motivate users to use full-screen apps under Metro.
I say I was surprised, because I am used to change. I have changed the desktop environment and window manager quite a few times during the long period I have used FreeBSD and Linux as my main desktop at home and usually I can live with most of the UI themes available. For most desktop environments there are usually lots of themes that you can download and/or customize. The themes can completely change the look of the UI so it can look like any UI back to the CDE (ancient "Common Desktop Environment), Motif, or even QNX3 Photon.
I do not understand why in 2015 a desktop environment, such as Windows interface can't have a few themes available for various tastes.