Re:Ubuntu 16.04 Unity 8 current state [video]
by GrumpyYoungMan on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:38AM
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>Windows has two control panel apps. One in the Windows 8 app style, and the old one from Vista and up that has been mutilated repeatedly.
However, unlike others, MS is in the process of gradually cleaning things up and updating their UI to to comply their new UI standard. Change is a slow and delicate process when high levels of backwards compatibility is a must.
The styling and even UI elements of Office vs everything else are wildly different.
There is no cohesion there, and there never needed to be any. On Android practically every corporate app is a completely custom styled atrocity with no common behavior, but Android took over the world.
What matters is that what the developer gives you out of the box is uniform and consistent. Anything you yourself install after that can always, and often will, break that common theming. And that is by necessity a product of an unrestricted development platform - if developers can change everything, they will.