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After using Xara Pro 4 for the last decade + it stopped working I upgraded to Designer pro X. Is there any way to alter the user interface, the dark UI in my humble opinion is terrible, you can hardly see the icons on the toolbars.
Thanks in anticipation DonnyK
Close XDP and go to C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X. Open the folder with the version number of XDP you have, locate xaradark_theme.xml and rename it (e.g., add 'OLD'). Perhaps good to first copy this file for safekeeping. Restart XDP and you should have the light-grey interface again.
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That is brilliant it worked like a treat. Xara is a great bit of kit and I'm so pleased it looking like its original self.
Thankyou so much.
My pleasure! :-)
Or just press Ctrl+Alt+ Shift+s ....
And to revert to the dark UI, press it again ...
But I wholeheartedly agree; the dark interface is not what I'd like to see.
If I recall correctly, using your method also resets all customized settings of the user interface.Quote:
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I just tried your method and nothing happened, am i doing something wrong?Quote:
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thats great and little funny!
are there any other hidden cheats? tricks? features? ....
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + SQuote:
I just tried your method and nothing happened, am i doing something wrong?
works fine for me Joe ;)
ctrl+alt+shift+s is a developer keystroke, not officially supported by xara for user use - if it works, it works - but it may not continue to do so... there can be issues for example with renerding on some systems as i recall
There are issues with the light UI, whatever method used to achieve it.
Most annoying; the toolbars won't be drawn correctly when floating.
And some minor quirks like dialogues not rendering as they should (for instance; the colour editor)
But having used Xara Studio from it's first Windows incarnation (1994) I still prefer the Classic interface.
I'd love to have this light gray UI given an overhaul to bring it to the modern and clean UWP interface. I tried to hack the Xara UI an update by using Resource Hacker to binary edit the xaradark.cjstyles file but that's to much of an hassle.
Good examples? FireAlpaca, MS Paint3D come close.
What might help in those cases is to minimize the UI and, next, maximize it again. The toolbars are redrawn and stay put, including those that are floating. At least on my system (Windows 10 Pro). I noticed that the problem mostly occurs when customizing the setup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael
would be better if xara implemented a proper user choice of UI, but there you go, they have better things to do...
Meanwhile Inkscape can do this and upgrade to use of 4K resolution.
Oh, I love Inkscape and the look of the UI is much better than Magix's rendition. But ... Xara is much more user friendly and in general is more responsive and speedy. Plus: pressure sensitivity is very natural with Xara, Output (HTML/PDF/JPEG) is much better, multi-page documents and lots more advantages keep me locked in to Xara (Help, help! we're haunted in a castle ...)
I guess the art pen pressure sensitivity is ok [for vector] in xara; the freehand tool on the other hand has a mind of it's own, the directional prompting just gets in the way...