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Is this using native widgets? I’m currently using Tokodon on Linux and it’s quite a joy to use a thing that is using my OS’s UI for once

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From the screenshot it looks like an UWP app. So it's not a "proper native" win32 application.

For what it's worth, 'UWP' is a very specific set of frameworks. The 'new' Windows App SDK (WinUI 3) is not UWP, yet it produces similar looking apps (Using Fluent https://www.microsoft.com/design/fluent).

WinUI 3 can be used in a 'proper native' win32 application. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/#compar...

Yes, it's all very confusing and Microsoft has done a terrible job of making this easy for anyone.

Also, the Windows team at Microsoft still believes the WinUI 3 controls to be the "most native"/"best experience" in Windows in 2023, even after/because of the divorce from what used to be "UWP". (Though Microsoft's own usage of WinUI 3 across their many applications is currently inconsistent at best.)

UWP is the proper look for win8 and unwards

Thankfully most developers disagree. I am using 11 and the only UWP app I use is the modern terminal... and it's UWP because Microsoft made it.

Heh, they don't disagree. Everyone has just stopped developing Windows-only apps about the time XAML showed up on the scene.

I'm having a really hard time thinking of any greenfield Win32/WinForms apps I use on a daily basis that were created post 2010 or so...

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