Comment by lewisl9029 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lewisl9029 | Hacker News Reader

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> For the love of Cthulhu, don't rewrite it as a Modern app

I'm honestly curious about this remark.

If Modern apps today were as limited as they were in Windows 8 then I'd wholeheartedly agree with you. But I actually find Modern apps in Windows 10 to be quite usable now that they can be freely resized and managed like any regular application.

I personally use several modern apps on a day to day basis, namely Mail, Calendar, Finance, Reader, Calculator, and the Office apps (in place of the full suite that I no longer have installed, saving several Gigabytes on my SSD), and I really struggle to think of any glaring issues that would make someone so vehemently condemn this entire class of apps.

I personally find them to be slow to start. For example, the calculator app has a loading screen. A loading screen for a calculator! It's usually about second or half a second, but sometimes it is more. The Photos app has a similar slowness when opening that is annoying when browsing folders of photos.

I used to have the same issue with Windows 8.1 but since Windows 10 they load almost instantly.

The calculator also forces you to manually set focus on the "screen" label area before you can key anything. I guess some people may want to type numbers into the calculator app for some other purpose?

Biggest issue I have with them is that they don't support Drag and Drop.

For example with Groove Music and Movie player, I can't drag and drop a folder with music or videos to them to add to a playlist. To me this is a step backwards.

Other than that I do believe they improved a lot since windows 8 and they are much more functional.

Just to clarify, not having Drag and Drop is not an API limitation (see [1]). Rather, they haven't implemented it yet in every place you'd expect to see it.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/mt2276...

thanks for this. till now I thought it was an API limitation.

I also remember reading somewhere that the problem exists only when drag and drop is done between modern apps and win32 apps.

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