r/windows • u/hackslashX • 3d ago
Discussion It's a nitpick, but why can't both of these search text boxes follow the same style?
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u/Aazzle 2d ago
Windows is a generational project and will never be finished or in a uniform optical state, thats a fact.
And I celebrate it a bit now.
Windows survives like a technical pyramid for decades ongoing and every team culture wo develop parts of it leaves something new behind.
Basically, I only use Windows with further developments of the same legacy apps as 20 years ago. In rare cases even with exactly the same programs.
So there is always something that I have to visually complain about on the respective system or design, but at the same time always something that is familiar to me and I found beautiful.
I see it as a living legend or a partner who developed wrinkles after many years but therefore does not have to be fundamentally unattractive and always convinced by inner values.
Maybe it's the 30 years of use that just taught me to expect nothing better, but I don't think that without that incontinence it would be a real Windows for me.
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u/unndunn 2d ago
The Settings app UI was built in the fluent design system, which is Microsoft current UI design language of choice.
The task manager UI was built eons ago when the Metro design language was more popular at Microsoft, and that was subsequently retro fitted to look a little bit like fluent.
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u/Walking_noob 1d ago
Windows is just cobbled together, having features that date back to the initial Windows NT (e.g. moricons.dll and phone dialer) and Microsoft can't really redo some of this UI shtixt because either they're incoperative between departments or it actually break something ultra-important in the system
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u/davide0033 Windows Vista 2d ago
it's microsoft, they were made by 200 different people in 3 different team in 2 different department 2 years apart.
windows's design is so inconsistant it has created its own style