[Bug 52481] New: Windows 7 Aero theme support

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52481

Bug ID: 52481
           Summary: Windows 7 Aero theme support
           Product: Wine
           Version: 7.1
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: uxtheme
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Would be great if it were possible to use Windows 7 Aero theme in Wine.

Currently Wine doesn't "see" it. There are no messages in console whatsoever.

2. I've tried using https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html but it
doesn't show anything for aero.msstyles as if it's not a valid DLL file.

3. I've tried running the style as an application after renaming it to
aero.exe:

Application could not be started, or no application associated with the
specified file. ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found.

Just to check if it maybe imports something which Wine doesn't support. Nope,
it's just missing main().

4. strings aero.msstyles | grep -i dll

Produces nothing. There are no imports per se.

sha256sum aero.msstyles 
cae5a560fe3603dc8c8ad3ca08e6b93a5e277e44c3ea06146083ea859ce745c2  aero.msstyles

FileVersion: 6.1.7601.17514 (win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850)

[Bug 52481] Windows 7 Aero theme support

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52481

Zhiyi Zhang  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #1 from Zhiyi Zhang  ---
Windows 7 theme file uses theme file format v4. Currently, wine only supports
the v3 format used by XP. v4 is a file format that's compressed and largely
undocumented. There're some efforts in the community to reverse engineer it,
for example, see https://github.com/nptr/msstyleEditor/wiki/.msstyles-Format.
So it's a lot of effort.