Immersive skin on windows 8.1

[Voyager-III]

When Open-Shell-Menu is installed on windows 8.1 the Immersive skin is missing? But not on Windows 11, I copied over the skin from my windows 11 installation and it seem's to work great on 8.1, I was wondering if this is left out for a reason or is it a bug in the installation when installed on Windows 8.1?

[ge0rdi]

Could it be that you have some older Open-Shell version on Win 8.1 machine?
Immersive skin was added in 4.4.191.
It is by default selected on Win 10/11, but you should be able to select it also on older Windows.

[ge0rdi]

I have updated installer script.
Since next version the skin should be installed on all systems.

[EJSnow]

You forgot that Windows 7 doesn't support Metro colors so the Immersive skin won't work there. Really, the condition should be to install the skin only on Windows 8 or higher. Open-Shell still supports Windows 7, in case you forgot.

[ge0rdi]

Thank you for noticing.
I can change the condition, no problem.
Though I guess there is no big deal even if the skin is installed. Nobody will simply use it on Win7.

BTW Have you tried to use the skin on Win7? Doesn't it work at all?

[EJSnow]

I haven't but I can try. I'll let you know what I find.

[EJSnow]

(nevermind see below)

[bonzibudd]

@ge0rdi

Like Win761 said, it won't work on Windows 7 at all due to the lack of metro colors.

Ivo coded Classic Shell to immediately revert to the default skin if a Windows 7 system tries to run anything with metro colors.

However, I did code the colors on the immersive skin to be compatible with Windows 8, so it can still be supported.

[ge0rdi]

Cool, thank you for explanation.
I have updated installer script (211d12b).