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A major Windows 11 UI redesign is coming, Microsoft is dumping legacy code for WinUI (www.windowslatest.com)
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Microsoft confirms Windows 11's File Explorer Properties dialog is a real WinUI rebuild, and more legacy dialogs are moving to WinUI next.

Microsoft says that their plan is to convert more Windows UI elements to WinUI3, while confirming that the new File Explorer Properties dialog was rebuilt from scratch in WinUI, and not just a fresh coat of paint.

Windows 11 has felt inconsistent for a while now. Modern panels are right next to decades-old dialogs, RAM usage keeps creeping up in apps that are supposed to be native, and popular Windows apps keep turning into web wrappers because developers don’t trust Microsoft to stick with a UI framework.

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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hope they actually follow through and start making the OS less a gallery of 2 decades worth of half-assed redesigns and more a cohesive, responsive design. Dare I say their last actually decent UI update may have been Windows 8 which was also half-assed but at least it worked well from what I hear. Windows being a centrally controlled OS should be better at this than Linux and yet they aren't!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I would like one settings menu to rule them all. Even if the settings menus links you out to a dialog box that's better than "Look up control panel for the other half of the settings" and " we moved some of the network settings but not all". Who are that testing these systems on?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Windows being a centrally controlled OS should be better at this than Linux and yet they aren't!

    that's what I was thinking too, but to be fair historically linux wasn't a GUI centered world, so there were not much core system GUIs that could become obsolete

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