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They're working on it. I'm surprised so many developers complain about Microsoft's approach here. They're slowly moving over settings from the control panel t
by wvenable 7y ago
They're working on it. I'm surprised so many developers complain about Microsoft's approach here. They're slowly moving over settings from the control panel to the settings app a little more with each Win10 release.
It will be impossible (or at least wildly impractical) to attempt to do this all at once. Iterative releases is entirely the correct approach to a problem of this scale.
Personally, I still prefer the old control panel but I also know it's a little intimidating for the average user. Having a mobile-phone like settings experience is going to b be less surprising for the majority of users.
- zachwood 7y agoWindows 8 came out almost 8 years ago. A decade to restyle some GUI panels seems a bit extreme to me.
- WorldMaker 7y agoIt's not just a restyle though: it's in most cases a complete rewrite. At the very least in almost all cases it is a very new UI framework compared to anything the control panel was previously written in (WinRT/XAML versus organically grown madness across mixtures of MFC/ATL/Win32-by-hand/other forms of macro soup). But if Old New Thing and other Windows blogs make anything clear, it's also a ton of new testing, because Microsoft has no idea ever what sort of changes might domino into some user's beloved fifteen year old application that no one realized instead of using the right API for its job was instead scraping the pixels of the control panel for the right shade of purple.