Cursor Windows 11 Contrast Theme Not Visible

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    hexspa · Member ·

    Hi, I hope you’re well. I’m writing because the Simplenote desktop app for Windows 11 is not compatible with the contrast theme I am using; which I don’t believe to be special in any way. The following incompatibilities occur, in order of importance:

    The cursor is black against a black background, i.e. invisible.

    The menu bar is white, not black or grey as is usual with contrast windows

    To reproduce, enable an accessibility contrast theme with black background and use Simplenote on Windows 11. Observe the black cursor and see that it’s not visible. Then look at the menu bar and see that it’s white which is not only jarring to the eye but also makes the green text (that I happen to be using) low-contrast and hard to read.

    Please make the cursor the same color as the font, as Google Chrome does (Google implements high contrast compatibility to an industry-leading degree), and also change the color of the menu bar to be more high contrast, preferably dark when using a dark contrast theme.

    Thanks,

    Michael

    attached: low-contrast menu bar; impossible to screenshot an invisible cursor.

  • staff-fred · Staff ·

    Hi Michael! Thanks for bringing this up!

    We’ll note this and you may see this is implemented in the future release. Features are considered by our developers, so we appreciate you taking the time to share this with us.

    Hope this helps, but let me know if there’s something else I can do for you.

  • Unknown's avatar
    hexspa · Member ·

    Hi, Fred. Thanks for your response. Can you tell me whether there’s a way to set a boot flag so that simple note ignores the Windows 11 contrast theme? I know some apps like Directory Opus ignore the theme by default and some can use a command to ignore it. If that’s possible, please let me know. Thanks – Michael

  • staff-frank · Staff ·

    We have an open issue for making the cursor visible on Windows high contrast mode.

    If you have any further questions or suggestions, we recommend continuing your discussion directly on the GitHub issue here:
     
    https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron/issues/3051

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