Modernflyouts: Proposal: Explore future migration to WinUI

[Samuel12321]

Will allow additional features such as acrylic.

[ShankarBUS]

WinUI 3 neither have acrylic nor reveal 😂. We have to use xaml islands until they support them.

There won't be acrylic or reveal in WinUI 3. It is planned for WinUI 4? Which will be released in 2021-2022.

So for a immediate need we can switch to WinUI 2 and xaml islands

[ShankarBUS]

Even if we switch to WinUI 2 xaml islands, I don't know how we are gonna create the flyout. For settings window there won't be any problems. The flyout is going to be a tricky one. We won't have rounded corners or shadow AFAIK while using xaml islands. But we can use a method that @michalleptuch suggested - https://github.com/michalleptuch/RoundedCorners as a workaround.

[Cyberdroid1]

There can be blur too with XAML islands, right?

[ShankarBUS]

Yes! That's what I said (xaml islands + WinUI 2).

We can have proper acrylic effect only if we use xaml islands (not present in WinUI 3 so we can use WinUI 2 xaml islands)

But the problems are (applies to both WinUI 2 & WinUI 3) :

• No modern window border, title bar (chrome) in settings (a similar issue can be found in PowerToys)

• No rounded corners/shadows in the flyout (could have rounded corners but it won't be good)

• No animations while showing/hiding flyout (since WinUI 2 & 3 won't supports transparent alpha blended windows)

• Not sure whether it will be fast/slow. BUT Since the UI is in WinRT and our code being in .NET the communication between two runtimes could be slow (still not sure)

[Cyberdroid1]

It would lead to the same static look like that in windows default flyout, right?

[Samuel12321]

done some work on the multi language support, unfortunately it appears to be rather difficult in WPF, in winUI and UWP it can be partially automated. Another thing to keep in mind when considering future options.

[ShankarBUS]

Yes that's why I'm hesitant to add multi-lingual support. Too much work for a feature that no one bother not having.
Let's see if we somehow find an efficient way 🤷‍♂️

[Samuel12321]

Closing as not useful unless WinUI adds rounded corners and acrylic as well as the others mentioned above.
None of which are planned in the near future.