Essem :skeeter:

@esm@wetdry.world

started on a thing

February 10, 2026 at 5:34:59 AM

i know there have been a few registry tweaks going around to change the color scheme to look more like the breeze colors; this differs from those in that it's an actual .msstyles theme, which means i can do stuff like replace widget styles and offer multiple color schemes in a single file

this was interesting to start on since there's barely any coherent documentation or tools for the windows xp msstyles format (aside from wine's own built-in light theme)

i ended up wrangling cmake and mingw-w64 to produce a working file, and adapted scripts used for the breeze gtk2 theme

unfortunately i'm unsure if it's possible to change the outline design of textboxes, at least in wine...

(i have tried, but unfortunately didn't get anywhere)

should i push what i have to a repo somewhere (i've cleaned it up a bit but it's still a bit messy and unfinished)

i feel like the build system and structure of the project alone could help document how to make these things since there's not really much atm for that

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