[Github-comments] [geany/geany] New UI on windows is bloated and scaled up (Issue #3063)

[Jiří Techet]

> I said one or two times that my favorite is B00merang-Project/Windows-10, which from my testing on Windows 11, looks really close to native.

Could you please post some screenshots comparing it e.g. to Notepad++? Because I'm seeing something completely different, i.e. that Prof-Gnome looks _much_ more native on Windows 11 (I'll post some screenshots in the evening, I don't have access to my Windows machine right now). To me it seems that Microsoft went very much in the direction of macOS appearance with Windows 11.

The checkboxes Prof-Gnome uses are white on blue background like in Windows native apps, the scrollbars are nearly identical to the Windows 11 style, maybe the only bigger difference are the buttons which on Windows 11 are a bit less rounded and less 3D but that's about it. Note that it still doesn't look completely native (and I don't think it's even possible for a theme to achieve this) but it doesn't scream "I'm from a different world" and the differences are subtle enough that nobody will open a bug report because of that I believe.

And, unlike B00merang-Project/Windows-10, you can tell individual widgets apart and I think it would be stupid to exchange a bug report called "New UI on windows is bloated and scaled up" for a bug report "New UI on windows is not usable because widgets are hard to distinguish".

Once again, I agree that a Windows theme should be as native as possible (though with Windows it's hard to tell what it is these days because there are the classical applications but also the web-like applications that look completely different plus every major Windows version ships with a different theme) but in addition the theme should be usable. From the themes I tried the Prof-Gnome theme satisfies these criteria the best for me right now.

Also note that I can make some minor tweaks to the theme if you don't like an appearance of some particular widget.

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