Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

Re:Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework by chrisandchris on Saturday August 02, 2025 @12:13PM (#44768803)

> I have zero interest in the Win11 UI [...]

As has the rest of the world, and we will just put it on the list of UI frameworks Microsoft did not completly implement, fully support or considering "the default".

So we stay stuck with the status quo: There's no official UI for Windows, still.

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Re:Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework by misnome on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:15PM (#44769935)

I mean, Apple gets a lot of flak for changing things and deprecating old frameworks, but I’ve lost count of the number of post-win32 UI frameworks?

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Re:Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework by pjmlp on Sunday August 03, 2025 @02:51AM (#44774625)

There is Win32, that has made us company for several decades, is kind of ok, definitely much better than Motif, the official UI for much UNIXes, before Linux took over.

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Re:Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework by hulitu on Sunday August 03, 2025 @10:27AM (#44776794)

In Motif, i can set the shadowThickness as much as i want. /s

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Re:Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework by pjmlp on Sunday August 03, 2025 @01:09PM (#44778034)

I rather not deal with Xlib C API.

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