FlyOOBE Design Direction

[Belim]

I'm starting a little poll about the design direction.
Do you prefer the classic Windows-style GUIs and dialog windows without all the modern fancy stuff,
the "golden middle ground", so modern meets classic (which is where FlyOOBE currently sits),
or the latest Microsoft design language with WinUI, Fluent, and all the modern polish?

I could make FlyOOBE more practical and efficient, but that might come at the cost of its current UI look. Feel free to check out the classic dialog window style, that's roughly the direction it would go.

I've set up a quick poll and would love to hear your thoughts!

[grundt]

I care less about what the app looks like and more about what it takes to build the project ... last time I checked it required something in the neighborhood of an extra 4GB on your C: drive to install all the components necessary to build a WinUI project.

[Belim]

thats nothing
if microsoft ever kills off winforms, im out. windows can kiss me goodbye
honestly, i hate winui and all that “modern ui” nonsense.
to build anything serious with it you basically need four rocket scientists and a couple quantum computing degrees.
its just gross especially when even ms doesnt give a damn and keeps shoving their heavier apps into chromium/webview2 wrappers

[kenmcd]

I could make FlyOOBE more practical and efficient, but that might come at the cost of its current UI look. Feel free to check out the classic dialog window style, that's roughly the direction it would go.

Would this fix the scaling issues?
When I focused on this project today I planned on contributing some documentation.
But the screenshots will look really bad.

I have a Dell XPS laptop with a 19in screen running 3840px by 2400px at 300%.
When I started FlyOOBE 1.50 it looked like this:

So I set the FlyOOBE window to 2400x1800 and it looks like this:

Note Another user had a similar issue: UI looks weird #383

Been watching this project for quite awhile and would like to contribute some good docs.
But good docs do not have bad distorted screenshots.

My vote above would be for whatever makes your job easier (which I think is number 1) .
My second choice is to fix the scaling in the current Windows UI (which can work).
Other apps do scale properly so it is possible.

Love to help the project with some comprehensive docs, but need to be able to make decent screenshots.

[Belim]

@kenmcd do all pages look like that or just the home page? i'll take a look especially at the left navigation and the home page

[kenmcd]

Answered in the other thread - with a video (GIF) to show you.