SkyySX

The bug where the Taskbar renders incorrectly suddenly returned, this is super weird.

Even though you haven't explicitly listed my issue, it's fixed and renders correctly now, thank you very much!

That's what I would like to know, did I do anything wrong on my end? Any way I can help with debugging?

I'm not sure if this was already reported but I finally upgraded from SaB 3.7 to 3.8.10 in preparation for 24H2 and noticed something strange. When the Startbutton is centered the theme of the Taskbar doesn't get rendered correctly on the first monitor. I've picked a Windows Vista theme to clearly show the difference: Start Button on the left: Start Button centered: This does not happen on the second monitor Taskbar, there it's always rendered correctly. That's on Windows 11 23H2 22631.4169

@Tihiy I'm trying to port an old Windows 7 custom theme to StartIsBack and I have a small problem. I use the included Windows 7.msstyles from SaB as a base and everything works as long as I don't segment the taskbar: As soon as I segment the taskbar it loses most of its styling: The interesting thing is however, due to a bug I presume the taskbar on my second monitor can't un-segment itself yet retains the styling: Is there any documentation as to how to edit styles so they retain the styling when in segmented mode? I have some custom-styles for SaB that work fine when segmented so it seems to be possible.

Is there any documentation of how to create themes for StartAllBack properly? Windows 7 styles don't work, a couple of Windows 10 ones do work but they all have squared corners so I would like to make my own theme for SaB or at least edit some Win 10 ones with rounded corners. EDIT: While I'm on the topic of themes, does anyone know of some Windows Longhorn themes perhaps?

Awesome, thanks for the update and the hard work! Could someone post a screenshot of the "new" tray area or does it look the same? I'm a little apprehensive installing this build due to the mentioned corruption. I'm on 23H2 RC.

Well I tested SaB in a 23H2 VM now and it worked like a charm

So do I see it correctly that SaB 3.6.12 works fine with 23H2 and I can safely update?

Oh I agree with that, I'm just saying for my personal use-case I could make due with less, especially since RoundedTB exists.

If we have to make due with the new Taskbar I hope there will be a way to atleast customize the Start Icon while centered.

Say what happened to the Mica effect in the folder-properties etc.? It's gone again for me after SaB added it a while ago. I'm running SaB 3.6.4 and Windows 11 22621.1555.

Could we have non Aero.msstyles patching as an option in the settings? I use a custom theme that's named differently but I liked the mods SaB applied. Or should I just rename my theme?

Hmm interesting, but do both solutions also re-enable Live-Tiles? I tried Start 11 before and it could replicate the Windows 10 menu but Live-Tiles weren't functional, is Explorer Patcher different here?

As far as I know there isn't any third-party application that can re-enable the Windows 10 menu with tiles. The function itself doesn't seem to exist in the OS anymore and replicating it seems hard.

I guess you're a fan? 😅 Also thanks for the update!

Oh wow thank you! Upon trying it it seems to work amazingly short of a small incompatibility with SaB: I'll open an issue on the projects Github and see if the dev can do something about it.

That's a fair note although I think it would be nice as an option if it doesn't add too much work for you. I use bolder fonts across my whole explorer so readability shouldn't be impacted too much for people who use non-default fonts.

I've been thinking, could StartAllBack add Mica to the whole explorer window? I know MicaForEveryone can do this but since it's a hacky way it only works in dark-mode so I thought maybe SaB could do it properly for light and dark.

Yeah it seems to be somehow related to the classic taskbar as it doesn't happen with the native one and I found out it's not just Moonlight but also the native Remote Desktop that triggers this. Thanks for the workaround, I enabled it now and will see what happens on my end

I have a very weird bug with StartAllBack. I've recently started to use its taskbar and whenever I connect to my PC remotely via Moonlight Game Streaming this language select panel appears: It also stays after I disconnect and will persist until the PC is rebooted. The strange thing is I don't have any other keyboard layouts other than German set in Windows yet suddenly English appears twice. This does not happen with the native Windows 11 Taskbar and Moonlight. I'm running build 22621.900 and SaB 3.5.6. Any insight on this?

Hmm what theme is that?

Does this mean I could enable tabs but keep the Windows 7 Explorer look from SaB?

Ah right that's also a thing but I'm glad it worked out in the end. You're welcome

This already happens when you unpin everything from the left side.