Windows UI Development Nightmare

impressive ...the windows 10 UI development was the most enormous shitstorm i've seen in a while. how hard is it to move some fucking settings menus many people have pointed out that the UI is upgraded piecemeal oh god you have no idea it's so hard whyyyyyyy I tried to ADD A DROPDOWN DO YOU HAVE TO DESCRIBE IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL WHAT IT TAKES TO ADD A DROPDOWN TO THE CONTROL PANEL? Find myself overcome with morbid curiosity is it like java and fax? hahahahahahaha hahahahahaha NO describe to me what it takes to add a dropdown to the control panel. grabs a pillow and brown paper bag control panel or settings? probably some ancient manyan rites lots of goats and registry entries see, first you find this folder that contains the code files for the control panel, and there will be, like, 5 of them, each with something like 2000 lines of code, except for one that had 15000 lines of code and I never found out why. Once you find the C++ code file for the specific subsection of the control panel, you must then find the appropriate XAML file that is matched up to this code file, and then search through it to find another dropdown box element you can copy and paste because no one actually knows how any of this works. Then you have to go into a resource file and find a very specific resource ID for your control panel string, and create a new resource ID to tie to it. Then, you must find all the relevant C++ code tying the dropdown you copied, and copy and paste all that code, but this time, modify the hooks so it gets tied to your new dropdown. Then you have to run through 2 seperate specialized compilers to compile the resource files, and if ANYTHING GOES WRONG, literally ANYTHING, the ONLY ERROR YOU GET BACK is this: -1 So after you run around screaming for a DAY because there is no explanation for what the fuck is going on, you give it to your coworker, who discovers that every single number in the resource file must increase by exactly 1, and if there are any holes in those numbers, everything fails completely. Then you can actually finish compiling the special compiler stuff and start building the actual codebase through a specialized plugin built for visual studio for the sole purpose of dealing with this fucking codebase, and then you might actually get something to compile. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK THAT is how you add a dropdown

A chat screenshot describes the absurdly complicated process of adding a dropdown menu to the Windows Control Panel. The joke is that decades of legacy code, obscure build tools, C++/XAML files, resource IDs, and unexplained compiler errors make a trivial UI change feel like an impossible ritual. It is shared as a reaction to nightmare software maintenance, especially old enterprise or operating-system code. EN: A chat screenshot describes the absurdly complicated process of adding a dropdown menu to the Windows Control Panel. The joke is that decades of legacy code, obscure build tools, C++/XAML files, resource IDs, and unexplained compiler errors make a trivial UI change feel like an impossible ritual. It is shared as a reaction to nightmare software maintenance, especially old enterprise or operating-system code.

• @gentoomemes / 7886 2023-12-07