Another Piece of the Solution!
Windows 10 has a feature called “Nightlight” that removes blue from the entire screen. This is usually enabled in the lat evening because studies have shown that blue light prevents you from getting good sleep. (So does astrophotography!)
Normal:
Dark Mode Theme Applied:
Dark Mode Theme with Nightlight Enabled:
I had to take a picture of the screen for the last image. Apparently, Nightlight is a color remapping thing that doesn’t “screen shot”. But you get the idea, All colors are shifted towards red; the white docking module title bars and image frame, and the icons become reddish and the bright green progress bars turns to a very dark green. This looks very similar to when I put the red filter over the screen.
To do this, open your notification by pressing the “box quote” button at the end of your start bar. (Note that I have moved my start bar to the left edge to preserve vertical real estate.) The notification button is the one that is red with black “box quote” icon.
The notification panel will expand from the right side of your screen. Near the bottom are a series of “Notifications Actions” buttons. Click the “Expand” button to see them all. This is cropped to show only the expanded buttons:
Somewhere in the grid will be a “Nightlight” button. Right click it and select “Go to Settings”. The Display settings panel will appear:
Click “Night light settings” and it’s settings panel will appear:
Move the “Color temperature at night” slider all the way to the left to make it as red as possible. Then, under “Schedule” click to button to “Off”.
Now, clicking the “Nightlight” button in the Notifications Actions panel will toggle nightlight mode. You still need to enable the dark mode theme, but now you can make the rest of the white stuff turn red!
Nightlight affect all of WIndows 10, so the icons in your start bar and all other applications get red’ed too.
My next theme project is to see how this stuff effects PHD2 and if I can make a theme that works well for both SGP and PHD2 at the same time.