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Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by Jochim on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:56AM (#27559495)
>[0] Not sure what those are. Do random third-parties "augment" system dialogs by drawing random stuff on top of them? I find that thought horrendous.

The common example would be Dell/Synaptics adding their own tabs to the old Mouse system dialog.

I think the idea was quite sensible. Keeping the configuration in one place while supporting whatever features the manufacturers might have added e.g. touch pad gestures.

The only reason it's unfortunate is that the new dialogs don't support the old extension mechanism, forcing the old dialogs to be kept around.

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Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by vladvasiliu on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:03PM (#27561656)
> I think the idea was quite sensible. Keeping the configuration in one place while supporting whatever features the manufacturers might have added e.g. touch pad gestures.

I agree, but I thought that there was some sort of extension functionality, along the lines of "this is a mouse configuration panel, register it to [something] so that it's added to the mouse settings".

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