this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
146 points (96.8% liked)

Technology

86743 readers
2447 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
146
A major Windows 11 UI redesign is coming, Microsoft is dumping legacy code for WinUI (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by Nobody_Special@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
45 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Microsoft confirms Windows 11's File Explorer Properties dialog is a real WinUI rebuild, and more legacy dialogs are moving to WinUI next.

Microsoft says that their plan is to convert more Windows UI elements to WinUI3, while confirming that the new File Explorer Properties dialog was rebuilt from scratch in WinUI, and not just a fresh coat of paint.

Windows 11 has felt inconsistent for a while now. Modern panels are right next to decades-old dialogs, RAM usage keeps creeping up in apps that are supposed to be native, and popular Windows apps keep turning into web wrappers because developers don’t trust Microsoft to stick with a UI framework.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] djdarren@piefed.social 59 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I was talking about the Windows UI on Mastodon the other day, particularly in reference to how I have it set to dark mode on my PC at work, but when I hit Send/Receive in Outlook I get a bright white, XP-ass-looking box pop up. Someone replied, "the older the settings boxes look, the more useful they are". And I can't disagree.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. It was the same in Windows 10 where all their newer setting panels were just useless and you could do so much more with the old control panel.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

This was the final straw that made me switch to Linux in fact.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I've been half wondering if they are already vibe coding everything, given the number of bugs that I've noticed in outlook online over the last few months

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

No doubt about it.

And they are not the only ones.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Sure do, they are called Microslop for a reason.