Gimme a break! You're not going to buy it because of the background color?!?

I'm more concerned with all the new stuff in OD 2.0. i really could care less about the ui. Besides, you buy these things for what they can do-- not what their ui looks like. 

I might try it. Looks interesting. I still like the Mac dock though.

Wow.  How long are you really in the OD Configuration screen?

I have poor vision and must use a high constrast colour scheme with white text on black backgrounds. Applications that ignore the user's colour scheme and their own colours are entirely unreadable to the disabled.

Stardock has gradually been hard-coding white backgrounds into all their programs. It's short-sighted and it's terrible and lazy UI design. System colours are easily requested by any application. There is no need to hard-code white backgrounds other than to be lazy.

You buy them for that, not me. So let me get this straight: Because a serious issue doesn't affect you, it apparently doesn't affect anyone else?

I have bought Stardock programs because they have allowed me to customize Windows' terrible UI into one that's readable to a person with poor vision. If I cannot even read the interface of Stardock's own programs, how am I going to utilize them to customize my UI?

I fail to see how that is relevent when, in its current state, it is entirely unusable to someone with poor vision. I SHOULD be able to use it at all. All software SHOULD just use the customer's colour scheme. With a forced white background, I cannot use it at all. What possible reasoning is there to ignoring a customer's colour scheme?

And it's not JUST ObjectDock. It's ALL of Stardock's newer software. I used to be able to use Skinstudio to customize my UI, but when they started hard-coding white backgrounds into it about 1-2 years ago, that was taken away. I have pleaded with Stardock to provide a way to turn off these hard-coded colours and use the system colours, but they ignore me.

You may not be in ObjectDock's configuration for long, but you ARE in Skinstudio for hours. As is, they have lost an ODNT customer of 10 years. I have relied upon them for customizing Windows, but they have let me down.

You can already do it, below where You would make a package it should say Backup! .............oh, and the new UI looks cool ID!

I see.  You might have posted that information instead of just saying it's completely unusable.  We might have understood the why.  It's never a good idea to just point out a problem, without explaining why it's a problem.  You did say "under a high contrast colour scheme" but we can't deduce that you have poor vision from that.  In regards to your point about using the customers color scheme...email Stardock (have you?) and see what they say.  If you haven't tried/asked, you really shouldn't just give up on them imo.

I second that, m1. Wasn't trying to be contentious, kwyjibo. Didn't know you had an eyesight issue. Try emailing stardock, like the Munkeh said.

I have done that many times. When I saw this screenshot, that they are now changing ObjectDock from its usable interface to hard-coded colours means they really do not care about Accessibility.

My posts here in this article are me at my wit's end, frustrated and trying to bring attention to the problem here in the open, after all emails have failed. Hopefully others will read this and speak up with me. Hopefully... even people that don't have vision problems will speak out or email them.

Please, Stardock, put in the option to disable all hard-coded colours and use standard window controls into all of your software.

Ah, but have you seen the new User Interface in Winstep Nexus (click for a video of it in action where the new UI is clearly visible)? Winstep Xtreme is getting that same interface at the end of the month (and multi-language support too). So there!

Don't know what more to tell you.  I'm not a programmer so I don't know why they'd do that.

@jcrabbit, YES!, I downloaded it the other day for just that reason and it is MILES better than the current full Nexus interface.  I very much look forward to seeing the whole suite make that much needed change.  Kudos.

Now...about the performance of the Nexus dock once it's got a half dozen or more items on it...    

Pft! Stop running it on a 486 DX2 then.