"Deleted the post about introducing a dark title bar without warning, and did not tell where the prob" (903067)

[Shompinice]

@runner78

I would say that in the end it’s easier in windows to omit the native menu and create the menu using the editor UI, that would also fit better with the rest of the editor. As I said, Jetbrain has at least done that with PHPStorm, let the other editors like Rider do the same, but I only have PHPStorm on the Mac, so I noticed that the menu bar had changed. I suspect Jetbrain already had both variants, custom menubar in Window and native menubar on Mac. Their editor on Window is completely the same color scheme, title bar and menu bar.

This is a possible solution, though, I’d still like the Windows version to have native menus as well, based on XAML island, WinUI3 or the Windows App SDK.

[Onigiri]

I would love to see title bar and menu bar to be merged in future (if possible) similar to how it’s done in vs code.

[Shompinice]

@Tautvydas-Zilys

We might consider it. Given that we dropped support for Windows 7 and earlier Windows 10 versions opens up the possibility of doing it. That said, it isn’t without downsides: XAML runtime is huge and using it just for the menu bar might be overkill.

That said, as far as I know, this isn’t on the roadmap. And I am not on the team working on this stuff. There have been talks internally about prioritizing it but so far it didn’t make the list.

Is the team working on this in the forum, could you please @ him?

[Slashbot64]

On this subject of menu’s… I would love to see a redesign of it all not just to get rid of the massive white bar in darkmode and having matching dark/transparent blur glass like menu’s…aesthetically better… but really I just want rid of this white menu background… with some useful feature like making them tear-off like Maya has done for decades… being able to rip a menu off into a popup including submenu’s is absolutely great when you are using plenty of things from within those menu’s especially from third party assets or your own tools that are all dumped into them menus.

I’ve attached your post for reference purposes. In any case this hasn’t been done because that doesn’t affect the menu bar which remains white and defeats the whole purpose of it.

Reducing that massive white strip at the top of Unity even by ~30px is better than nothing, its only software I use now that still has this issue… The darkmode.cs script should be built in and used for darkmode already, it makes a small improvement to the issue. Also it adheres to windows classic active/inactive colors better.

[Shompinice]

@Tautvydas-Zilys

We might consider it. Given that we dropped support for Windows 7 and earlier Windows 10 versions opens up the possibility of doing it. That said, it isn’t without downsides: XAML runtime is huge and using it just for the menu bar might be overkill.

That said, as far as I know, this isn’t on the roadmap. And I am not on the team working on this stuff. There have been talks internally about prioritizing it but so far it didn’t make the list.

https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues/2943

[DllImport(UxTheme, EntryPoint = "#135")]
public static extern PreferredAppMode SetPreferredAppMode(PreferredAppMode PreferredAppMode);

This is the way to get win32 C++ dark menu background，it is used in File Explorer

[Kamyker]

@Tautvydas-Zilys

We might consider it. Given that we dropped support for Windows 7 and earlier Windows 10 versions opens up the possibility of doing it. That said, it isn’t without downsides: XAML runtime is huge and using it just for the menu bar might be overkill.

That said, as far as I know, this isn’t on the roadmap. And I am not on the team working on this stuff. There have been talks internally about prioritizing it but so far it didn’t make the list.

I have an idea. Couldn’t whole menu bar and title bar be removed completely and simply replaced with Unity IMGUI/UI Toolkit? That way you don’t have to care about making every change crossplatform. I guess that what Unreal does:

Additionally, notice how title bar is removed completely for them to make editor larger. Project name is in top right corner instead:

[runner78]

@Kamyker

I have an idea. Couldn’t whole menu bar and title bar be removed completely and simply replaced with Unity IMGUI/UI Toolkit? That way you don’t have to care about making every change crossplatform. I guess that what Unreal does:

I already suggested that above.

Here’s Rider and Photoshop, they do it that way too.

[Kamyker]

@runner78

I already suggested that above.

Here’s Rider and Photoshop, they do it that way too.

Made a shortcut to hide it with calls to windows api.

@Kamyker

Here’s C# script to hide it: https://twitter.com/kamyker/status/1606439878002098177

If someone could make menu bar UI with dropdowns (preferably in UI Toolkit) I can plug the rest of the code and simulate clicks with Window’s SendMessage. It’s a bit funny that this whole issue can be resolved in 3 days.

[sacb0y]

I would assume it’s mouse input is archaic too, it’s a shame how many programs have aweful track pad support due to being based on such an old framework.

You don’t know what you’re missing until you try Blender’s latest version that finally makes the track pad support modern.

[Ox7c13]

@Shompinice You are welcome:

0x7c13/UnityEditor-DarkMode: A fully working dark mode mod for Unity Editor on Windows (Dark Title Bar + Menu Bar + Context Menu) (github.com)