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Update Start Menu style previews. #1836

Closed Lixkote closed 4 months ago

Lixkote commented 4 months ago

Update the old blurry start menu previews from classic shell days to a more modern pixel-perfect ones that resemble the new default immersive skin and the previews that Windows 10 gives in settings app. obraz obraz

AppVeyorBot commented 4 months ago

:white_check_mark: Build Open-Shell-Menu 4.4.192-crjmfrmx completed (commit https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/commit/27ca237bb0 by @Lixkote)

ge0rdi commented 4 months ago

@bonzibudd Any thoughts on this?

Darthagnon commented 4 months ago

I vote nay; the Aero screenshots included by default beat oversimplified Metro screenshots proposed. The sort of people installing Open/Classic Shell are looking to make Win10 look like Win7, so no reason to make it look more like Win10. The previews are also not "blurry". chrome_240210_03

Lixkote commented 4 months ago

I vote nay; the Aero screenshots included by default beat oversimplified Metro screenshots proposed. The sort of people installing Open/Classic Shell are looking to make Win10 look like Win7, so no reason to make it look more like Win10. The previews are also not "blurry". chrome_240210_03

I think personally, that my previews are still better than the old ones simply because;

  1. Old previews are inaccurate, the default skin is not Windows 7's aero anymore, but its the Immersive skin which IS windows 10 styled, thus my previews provide an better visual representation of the actual default theme for the end user.
  2. I feel open shell needs some modernization and improvements, and the previews were still from the classic shell's days, thus not reflecting the current features and changes.
  3. From what i've seen most people(not tech oriented people, for example teachers in my school's computer lab) that use open shell use it for just the classic layout that they are used to, they don't really care about full theming the os to look like w7, and these who do, will be tech savy enough that new previews won't be any issue for them.
ge0rdi commented 4 months ago

Personally, I have no problem with existing previews, even if they are blurry and inaccurate (yup the menu looks differently by default).

But I agree that the point of these previews is to show how the menu style looks schematically. I think it is good idea to have these previews skin-neutral (as users can use many different skins).

The sort of people installing Open/Classic Shell are looking to make Win10 look like Win7, so no reason to make it look more like Win10.

I'd say there are many reasons why people install Open-Shell. For sure they can customize it to resemble Win7 (or whatever else they are attached to). But that is no reason to stick to some obsolete previews in settings.