Re:From macOS to Windows and WSL
by freeone3000 on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:19PM
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Windows 10 added a separate settings menu which doesn't support CPL applets so they kept the old one too. So now all of your settings are in two different places, but phrased slightly differently and in two menu trees and with fewer or more options for each setting. Oh, and now all the windows are WPF in a SPA, so they look different too.
It feels the settings are in dozen different places on Windows to begin with when it could go down 5 levels or deeper to get to the option you're looking for.
The "good old" control panel doesn't even look categorized well.
I've counted the different kinds of windows in Win7 control panel: there are ten of them. Ten distinct methods of organizing stuff in a window, all in the settings section of the OS, and that's not including third-party additions. There are navigational widgets that don't occur anywhere else in the OS (sidebars with links, iirc).
Also, all the hours lost in wandering through the control panel due to its awful localization…
These days, I'm pretty sure control panels can be used as a litmus test as to whether the GUI authors have a grip on UI design.