Inconsistent and unfinished GUI

Soldato
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So we are a couple of weeks in and I have got used to most of Windows 10's foibles. However for me the GUI just feels inconsistent and unfinished.

Window Title Bar Colour - locked on white unless you use a reg hack, but then you get odd title text colours on inactive windows.

Settings Panel - completely different look to the rest of the OS, monochrome grey/black with bad spacing. And you still have to go into good old Control Panel for some settings. Surely one app with basic and advanced views?

Context Menus - A right-click with give you one of four different menu styles.

Default Program pop up - this is just plain ugly.

Dark Mode - some modern apps have a dark skin whilst other don't. The OS dark skin can be turned on with a reg hack but has lots of issues (which I guess is why it is hidden)

Glitches - there are numerous other little glitches like lack of space padding around icons and a thin one pixel blue border on Notepad

Some of the best elements are the ones carried over from Windows 8, like the advanced views on File Copy and Task Manager. It really feels like there are three different GUI designs all mixed up.
 
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Sigh, another whine thread. The other 100 threads or the main thread not good enough or just that your views are more important?

If you don't like it, don't use it. If you like it and have something useful to add, then provide feedback to ms.
I didn't see another thread specifically about the GUI. If you don't like my thread don't read it or comment in it.

I have used every version of Windows since v1.0 including ME! None have looked so much like a random collection of mismatched homebrew shareware. Unfortunately I have to use Windows 10 as I want DirectX 12.

I just don't buy the, it's a work in progress, they are concentrating on mobile devices argument. That may of been the case in Windows 8 but we are two releases on now. Isn't this meant to be the release to win back desktop users? Surely Microsoft has the resources to give us a great UX.

If you think this looks fantastic then either you must be very easily pleased or I have a very low tolerance for bad design.

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