NOW ON STEAM: Curtains - Add New Style Modes to Windows 10
NOW ON STEAM: Curtains - Add New Style Modes to Windows 10
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 by Tatiora | Discussion: Curtains News
Add Additional Style Modes to Windows 10 with Curtains
Now Available on Steam
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Stardock released its newest customization tool on Steam today. Curtains™ allows users to apply new styles along the lines of Dark Mode and Light to Windows® 10.
Taking advantage of the groundwork built to support light and dark mode, Curtains includes several new styles including Fluent, Cairo, and Crystal mode that enhance the look and feel of the Windows UI along with apps that already support light and dark mode.
"The advantage of using a program like Curtains is that it's essentially just adding new 'modes' to Windows," said Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock. "It already works with high DPI displays and your existing programs. This gives users a little extra touch of customizing the Windows experience."
In addition, Curtains also includes styles that allow users to switch Windows to looking more like Windows XP or Windows 95 as well as alternative operating systems.
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Users can easily create and share their own styles using the built in style editor. A Curtains style can change everything that Light and Dark mode can change, including the Start button, title bar buttons, and title bar coloring. It also supports tweaking gradients, shadows opacity, and hundreds of other small elements of the Windows GUI.
"Curtains makes it very easy for people to make their own styles," said Wardell. "There are a lot of customization features that have been buried in recent years such as font faces and sizes, detailed color choices and much more. Curtains allows people to adjust all of that and save it with their style easily.”
Curtains is now available on Steam for $9.99.
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Visit the Curtains webpage for more information.
Reply #2 Friday, August 7, 2020 5:51 AM
is there any advantage or disadvantage over buying from one platform over the other?
on steam you apparently sadly dont get the customer friendly DRM as it does use third party but pricing for example seems to be different for some places which might be interesting to know whether there are any real differences between the steam and stardock versions.
We are unable to use the Steam DRM as it is not suitable for use with applications which run independently of Steam itself. Most importantly Steam would need to be running at application startup which is a problem for apps which start with Windows itself. Not a problem for games of course.
The versions are basically identical using Stardocks activation system. The only difference is the Steam version doesn't show the change license button. A possible disadvantage is you would need to install Steam on a computer to install the product initially vs a standalone installer when purchased direct.
Reply #3 Friday, August 7, 2020 6:20 AM
okay that's kinda interesting. makes me wonder where there is a steam version but I am not complaining about paying 25% less.
Reply #4 Friday, August 7, 2020 11:58 AM
Today I have purchased curtains on steam. Is it possible to register it for my Stardock account? I'm asking because one major letdown is that always when I want to run curtains it starts the steam client first, which takes some time, especially if there's yet another steam client update. So I'd rather like to have this product as a standalone installation as with all of my other Stardock products I've purchased in the past.
Reply #5 Friday, August 7, 2020 12:28 PM
wait a half sec, it was literally said that they made the steam ver in a way that it does NOT launch steam all the time.
We are unable to use the Steam DRM as it is not suitable for use with applications which run independently of Steam itself. Most importantly Steam would need to be running at application startup which is a problem for apps which start with Windows itself.
Reply #6 Friday, August 7, 2020 12:52 PM
Today I have purchased curtains on steam. Is it possible to register it for my Stardock account? I'm asking because one major letdown is that always when I want to run curtains it starts the steam client first, which takes some time, especially if there's yet another steam client update. So I'd rather like to have this product as a standalone installation as with all of my other Stardock products I've purchased in the past.
If you create a shortcut to CurtainsConfig in the curtains install directory it should open without steam.
Reply #7 Friday, August 7, 2020 2:03 PM
So if you let Steam create a Desktop or Start Menu shortcut, either during install or after the fact, that shortcut does get wrappered with the Steam launcher. We don't have control over that unfortunately.
After Curtains gets installed, you should have a standalone shortcut in your Start Menu / Stardock folder, that does not depend on Steam. You can copy that shortcut to your desktop if you want one there.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention as we'll get the FAQ updated with this info as well.
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Reply #1 Friday, August 7, 2020 5:02 AM
is there any advantage or disadvantage over buying from one platform over the other?
on steam you apparently sadly dont get the customer friendly DRM as it does use third party but pricing for example seems to be different for some places which might be interesting to know whether there are any real differences between the steam and stardock versions.