Incremental UI Refresh

[emoacht]

Microsoft are going to reveal the next version of Windows shortly and it would include UI refresh. To keep up with the OS's change, I am planning to incrementally refresh Monitorian's UI as well.

It will include:

• Depart from Metro: The tile-like buttons were originally derived from Metro (design language). They are still seen in Start menu and Action Center but there would no longer need to follow it.
• Remove brightness button: It was derived from the brightness button in the old Action Center but it has gone for a while and the brightness slider (for internal monitor) has been added instead.
• Additional settings: Some features have been already implemented but not shown in the menu. Making them more accessible would be helpful for the majority of users.

I hope Microsoft make available some key information on UI so that developers can get such information with certainty.

[emoacht]

As Windows 11 seems to make light theme the default, I am adding light theme.

[emoacht]

As of Ver 3.0, several options for visual effects are available. They are defined in WindowEffect.

Option	Value	Description
/theme	Dark	Dark theme
	Light	Light theme
/texture	None	No texture (no transparency)
	Thin	Thin blur texture
	Thick	Thick blur (Acrylic) texture
/main_border	Color name (e.g. white) or Color code (e.g. #dd000000)	Border color of main window
/main_background		Background color of main window
/menu_border		Border color of menu window
/menu_background		Background color of menu window

[BattouSaeen]

Is the brightness button the button that is now missing, the one that incremented the brightness by 10%? I really loved having that, please bring it back! Mine just updated and it's gone now :(

[emoacht]

@BattouSaeen Thanks for the feedback.
I am making the brightness number (next to the slider) to work as alternative to increment the brightness.

[Joonel]

@emoacht I liked the new digit-free look, thanks for that 😀

[Sam-1210]

@emoacht Planning to implement Win11 Rounded Corners and Floating Menu?

[emoacht]

@Sam-1210 I have tested rounded-corners of Windows 11 and found that they cause noticeable jaggies in the rounded edge.

• emoacht/WindowCornerTest

I don't really like such ugly edges in UI and so I cannot consider to utilize this feature until Microsoft fix this issue.

[emoacht]

I found that anti-aliasing is applied to the edge so as to fix the jaggies on 22000.120.
So I experimentally added rounded-corners as of Ver 3.2. Use /round option to try it.

[Sam-1210]

I found that anti-aliasing is applied to the edge so as to fix the jaggies on 22000.120.
So I experimentally added rounded-corners as of Ver 3.2. Use /round option to try it.

Really thankful to you for adding an updated design, and it is working great, plus nice to see you also added win11 floating design along with rounded corners.

[emoacht]

As of Ver 3.3, you can store command-line arguments for testing.

[emoacht]

As of Ver 3.5, rounded-corners are made default on Windows 11.

The command-line arguments for corners are changed as follows:

Option	Value	Description
/corner	NotRound	Squared-corners
	Round	Rounded-corners

[emoacht]

As part of incremental refresh, I redesigned small slider by 34fabde
It looks like below.