I have noticed they made a design change to Win10
They added the option (that by default is set) of some opacity in the left part of their Settings-system.
So I wonder if they FINALLY are beginning to find out that the hideous flat “Material Design” is not only ugly and unnatural but also so boring that they felt they had to do something?
And yes I hate their flat design. Apart from being ugly, it is simply outright stupid!
We now got high resolution displays with millions of colours that can make thing looks more natural, matching what our brains over aeons have evolved to interact with.
And then some silly designer get the crazy idea of making things as monochrome and flat as possible, even without shadows that could make things even look slightly real 3D, to make sure things get as far from intuitive as possible I guess…
As a perverted example, what sick mind thought out this sad cyklop smiley as an icon for anything???
Stuff like this would have been tolerable on Windows 2 on CGA screens, but in 2018….
But we can hope Microsoft is FINALLY beginning to move in another direction…
Everything Microsoft does nowadays feels just halfway there. I don’t use Windows 10, but I have it in a VM – this is what Microsoft understands when you ask them for a dark theme.
It’s like building a bridge over a river, you build half of it, and suddenly in the middle of the process you stop and decide that people can cross the other half by swimming. I can do better than this only using Windows 7’s built in customisation. Whatever Microsoft will implement these days will be made only halfway there. That’ll do. Just that. It is why Windows 10 has at least four different context menus, at least two different font rendering techniques (one RGB and one grayscale (dealing with this on a daily basis would drive me insane)), at least two kinds if windows chrome decorations and the OS still has more Aero-like icons than METRO ones.
Yeah, graphically a mess…
….And to confuse further they STILL have not got scaling the least bit under control..
If I scale the primary monitor to anything but 100%, it ALSO scales PARTS of things on other monitors!!! E.g. the old “Remote Desktop Connection Manager v2.7” got its header and dialogues scaled too… Even if used on my secondary monitor.
And do not try to use Visual Studio (on either monitor) unless the primary monitor is set for 100%, or it messes up your scale aware forms-application. (and no setting it back to 100 will not repair your forms)
How do they expect people to make well behaved scaling apps, when their own development tool can not handle anything else than a 100% environment properly???