I don’t even need something as cool as this, but can we please start prioritizing non laggy UIs again!?
Recently had to work with someone who’s on Windows 11 and every time they opened the file manager, it took two seconds to render the toolbar. Like, what the fuck, that’s just some buttons with icons. It should take a singular frame to render that, not two seconds. How do you even begin to fuck up the implementation so bad that it could possibly take this long?
I just needed to rant, but I guess, if you want to take something away from this, then: Don’t put your hope on Microsoft.
They probably reimplemented Explorer as an electron app
I have the horrible feeling that they even specifically start an HTML renderer for that toolbar itself, because the rest of the application appears fairly quickly.
Well, and because you would typically share the code for rendering the file manager contents with the code for displaying the desktop icons.So, in hopes that they did not rewrite the desktop icons in React, nor now ship two implementations for rendering those icons, I choose to believe that they built a horrible Frankenstein file manager instead. 🫠
Yes that’d be cool. As a Series S user i hate the laggy menus.
Microsoft is a pioneer in “losing the sauce”.
Look no further than the Original Blades dash and NXE compared to the last one.
Don’t even get me started on the flaming hot dumpster fire that is the Series X dash.Series s/x works but that’s all I can praise it for.
First gen Xbox 360 “blades” UI was alright too
I think part of the reason consoles lost the sauce is that all the fancy stuff could be exploited for homebrew and jailbreaking. Like the mail system in the wii.
Yeah, it was awesome
Does Kodi still have a skin that looks like that?
Not as far as I’m aware, and it wouldn’t be able to do it justice, because the original Xbox dash was fully rendered live in 3D. It’s more akin to playing a game than navigating a 2D themed app UI.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCtN498Sus
There is an actively developed theme that emulates the look of the Xbox 360 ‘blades’ menu though, called TetradUI.
The flubber that plays on boot is also a live render, it has a noise function that makes every startup unique. You can edit the program that runs to change some of the rendering functions on a modded box as well, it is a very unique console startup.
That’s really cool, I didn’t know that.
That always reminded me of Metroid prime.
