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What happened to UI customizablity since windows 7/8? Windows XP use to have software to make shell look like anything. Only ever felt the need for skinning si
by smusamashah 5y ago
What happened to UI customizablity since windows 7/8?
Windows XP use to have software to make shell look like anything. Only ever felt the need for skinning since windows 8 to go back to old UI which has clear borders and boundaries for everything including windows, buttons, menu bars, menus taskbar buttons...and lots of other things.
Is it harder to skin now? Why there aren't any software to give windows its classic look back?
- kaetemi 5y agoDesigners happened.
- userbinator 5y agoTo be precise, authoritarian designers who must feel some sort of pleasure in forcing everyone to conform to their ideas. There were certainly designers involved in Windows UI since the beginning, but their purpose seemed to be more of deciding on good defaults (and allowing those who didn't like them for whatever reason to change things like fonts, sizes, colours, etc.) I recall some of the marketing wankery around Windows 11 advertised it as being the "most diverse and inclusive". Maybe the designers were.
- roywiggins 5y agoStardock Curtains can do some light skinning of Windows: https://www.stardock.com/products/curtains/ https://www.stardock.com/products/curtains/