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I don't understand why microsoft doesn't have a small team dedicated to look and feel and just bringing it all up to date - all those control panel applets, hav

I don't understand why microsoft doesn't have a small team dedicated to look and feel and just bringing it all up to date - all those control panel applets, have they finally been upgraded?

FirstLvR 5y ago
they do have, the problem they have never use windows 11
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pjmlp 5y ago
No, not really. You get some updated Win32 window classes, theme engine updated for the UWP based stuff (or WinUI if on desktop side) and that's it.
AmVess 5y ago
I have no idea why they don't sort this out. Perhaps they feel like it is an issue. Windows 11 has UI elements from every OS back to Windows 3.1. I guess they like the absurdity of stacking various settings behind 2-3 control panels, some of which aren't even linked from one panel to the other.
coldacid 5y ago
Costs versus benefits.
- hulitu 5y ago
  As it looks, it does not cost more than a couple dollars.
luxuryballs 5y ago
Instead they have a bunch of small teams dedicated to their own little siloed feature set and then they cobble it all together, that’s my two second analysis of the inconsistencies seen here.
userbinator 5y ago
all those control panel applets, have they finally been upgraded I hope not --- frankly speaking, this new stuff is horrible. Compare how long the original Control Panel takes to open with the new "Settings App". Then compare their visual complexity. The latter takes multiple seconds to open, even has a loading screen, and yet all the controls in it are incredibly bland and featureless and conceptually simpler to render than in the old one. This is none other than a huge regression.
- nightcracker 5y ago
  80% of the time if I want to change something in the Windows 10 settings all my time is spent trying to find out which magic words I need to recite and which buttons I need to click to get to the old Windows 7 / XP style configuration dialogs. E.g. you have to navigate through this garbage: https://i.imgur.com/W1txUAK.png https://i.imgur.com/W1txUAK.png to find the one link (named "Sound Control Panel", hidden somewhere down the page) that opens the actual useful config panel: https://i.imgur.com/zDnnMPE.png https://i.imgur.com/zDnnMPE.png
  - garaetjjte 5y ago
    I wish they would just improve the old interface. It is mostly fine, but suffers from claustrophobic fixed size windows and listboxes that needed to fit on 640x480 screens. They also should make MMC toolkit DPI-aware.
    - timw4mail 5y ago
      That's how this mess started, trying to re-implement the settings screens in a more "modern" design. If they just made the original control panels work with HiDPI screens, there would be complaints that they've done nothing.
    - 908B64B197 5y ago
      There's a bunch of legacy apps that still have hardcoded pixels in the layout. It's a lost cause to try to make it work.

I don't understand why microsoft doesn't have a small team dedicated to look and feel and just bringing it all up to date - all those control panel applets, have they finally been upgraded?

FirstLvR 5y ago

they do have, the problem they have never use windows 11

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pjmlp 5y ago

No, not really. You get some updated Win32 window classes, theme engine updated for the UWP based stuff (or WinUI if on desktop side) and that's it.

AmVess 5y ago

I have no idea why they don't sort this out. Perhaps they feel like it is an issue. Windows 11 has UI elements from every OS back to Windows 3.1. I guess they like the absurdity of stacking various settings behind 2-3 control panels, some of which aren't even linked from one panel to the other.

coldacid 5y ago

Costs versus benefits.

hulitu 5y ago
As it looks, it does not cost more than a couple dollars.

luxuryballs 5y ago

Instead they have a bunch of small teams dedicated to their own little siloed feature set and then they cobble it all together, that’s my two second analysis of the inconsistencies seen here.

userbinator 5y ago

all those control panel applets, have they finally been upgraded I hope not --- frankly speaking, this new stuff is horrible. Compare how long the original Control Panel takes to open with the new "Settings App". Then compare their visual complexity. The latter takes multiple seconds to open, even has a loading screen, and yet all the controls in it are incredibly bland and featureless and conceptually simpler to render than in the old one. This is none other than a huge regression.

nightcracker 5y ago
80% of the time if I want to change something in the Windows 10 settings all my time is spent trying to find out which magic words I need to recite and which buttons I need to click to get to the old Windows 7 / XP style configuration dialogs. E.g. you have to navigate through this garbage: https://i.imgur.com/W1txUAK.png https://i.imgur.com/W1txUAK.png to find the one link (named "Sound Control Panel", hidden somewhere down the page) that opens the actual useful config panel: https://i.imgur.com/zDnnMPE.png https://i.imgur.com/zDnnMPE.png
- garaetjjte 5y ago
  I wish they would just improve the old interface. It is mostly fine, but suffers from claustrophobic fixed size windows and listboxes that needed to fit on 640x480 screens. They also should make MMC toolkit DPI-aware.
  - timw4mail 5y ago
    That's how this mess started, trying to re-implement the settings screens in a more "modern" design. If they just made the original control panels work with HiDPI screens, there would be complaints that they've done nothing.
  - 908B64B197 5y ago
    There's a bunch of legacy apps that still have hardcoded pixels in the layout. It's a lost cause to try to make it work.