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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by ed_elliott_asc on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:03AM (#28403595)
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?
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by userbinator on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:30AM (#28403937)
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.

Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by nightcracker on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:56AM (#28404293)
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 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

Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by garaetjjte on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:35AM (#28404745)
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.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by timw4mail on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:53AM (#28405802)
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.

Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by 908B64B197 on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:32PM (#28411013)
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.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by pests on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:52PM (#28411678)
Quick tip you can just right click your speaker/volume icon in the systray and click "Sounds" to open it, although on the wrong tab.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by hyakosm on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:50PM (#28407897)
The best control panel was the Windows 95 version : only a grid of icons.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by eyelidlessness on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:53PM (#28410745)
Amusingly enough, some shuffling of icons aside, macOS has had pretty much exactly this for its entire tenure. It’s not perfect, but surprisingly consistent across two decades of releases.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by matja on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:17PM (#28409519)
And even that comes from Windows 3.0
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by chaos_a on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:07AM (#28404410)
> even has a loading screen

Slightly unrelated, but this is one of this things that annoys me the most about using gmail. Inbox by Gmail used to load instantly, there's really no good reason at all for it to have a loading screen.

Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by 908B64B197 on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:44PM (#28411085)
Setting uses UWP underneath.

It's a dead platform.

Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by AmVess on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:21AM (#28403832)
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.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by luxuryballs on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:27AM (#28403910)
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.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by coldacid on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:25AM (#28403876)
Costs versus benefits.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by hulitu on Sunday September 05, 2021 @07:57AM (#28423624)
As it looks, it does not cost more than a couple dollars.
Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by pjmlp on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:14AM (#28403731)
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.

Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by FirstLvR on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:11AM (#28403692)
they do have, the problem they have never use windows 11