They removed context menu item highlights in Windows 11
They removed context menu item highlights in Windows 11
ROr if it's still there
Rit's so faint
Rit may as well NOT be there
RThey keep brighting up the color scheme
RTo the point where it just toasts your eyes
RAt this point I'd rather design an app with my own design, language and style. Then I would try and use Windows built-in stuff
RThat's not even the issue for me because I can just invert it
Na lot of Windows 11 UI feels like they're using XAML Islands to wrap over the old stuff
RThe issue is I can barely see the white mouse cursor against the white context menu and there's no item highlight
NI managed to open a Windows Explorer window without the ribbon
Rso I can't be reasonably sure I'm hovering over the thing I wanna click
RIf you futz with certain system files and the registry, it's possible to devolve the Windows 11 taskbar back to being a (broken) Windows 10 one
RYou may actually be right
Nprobably the reason why they're pushing Windows App SDK so much
Nit used to be called Project Reunion
Lwell thats what MAUI is supposed to be for but it doesnt support linux
Nto unify Win32, UWP, WPF together
LMAUI is generally what they want to push for UI stuff
RThing is I would prefer not to use a full UI framework if at all possible
Rbecause that just adds a lot of bloat if all I'm using it for is system dialog abstractions
Lbest bet is to then call into something like GTK or QT that is cross platform
N@acidiclight btw
NI forgot which GUI libraries this interfaces for Linux but it works okay for Windows and MacOS
Lor use Eto.Forms, which wraps around multiple UI APIs, and is relatively simple to integrate
RI wonder if it would be possible to use Eto.Forms to create an editor UI and just wrap vulkan inside it
Ltotally so
ROnly problem then would be enforcing a dark theme
Rbecause Win32 ain't got one
LWin32 colours are fully customizable by the dev
RI'm aware
Rthat's why it doesn't have a dark mode
Ndetecting user color scheme requires Windows App SDK unfortunately
Nor probably registry magic
Rbecause some ancient 1990 program some fossil of a businessman still uses just so happens to set some text to red which means that a global dark theme would break that app
N
RSorry battery died
Rgamer theme
RThe only other alternative is High Contrast but uh
Rif you've ever
Rused discord
Rwith high contrast
R...or worse, the Internet
Nthere's a reason why people still use cef despite the bloat it has
Nall for modern UX
Nunfortunately discord uses electron
Ntauri looks promising
RI still haven't figured out how to embed CEF into a custom game engine lol
ROr any HTML renderer for that matter
Aif beamng drive is anything to go by
Aembedding CEF into any sort of game is a death sentence