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aberflasm

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The UI is not good as it is now. It only looks good as a variant of white or light grey. Why allow people to change the color if it only looks good in two colors? I have seen a few concepts/mock ups that are similar to this UI which would have been acceptable. The revert to the older icons was also a bad idea. The fact is that this refresh looks more incomplete than the previous build. Honestly they should have done more before releasing this.

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InternalStorm

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The UI is not good as it is now. It only looks good as a variant of white or light grey. Why allow people to change the color if it only looks good in two colors? I have seen a few concepts/mock ups that are similar to this UI which would have been acceptable. The revert to the older icons was also a bad idea. The fact is that this refresh looks more incomplete than the previous build. Honestly they should have done more before releasing this.

It is a refresh after all.

It is a STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. The icons are smaller now in conversation windows, it is cleaner overall, and it looks great in white and light grey. they have to of course make it faster and more streamlined yet, but it is better than the last beta, which was very very bloated and didn't look to great from a design standpoint in terms of the new icons and colors used.

It will get better, and this is getting there IMO.

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Larney

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It is a refresh after all.

It is a STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. The icons are smaller now in conversation windows, it is cleaner overall, and it looks great in white and light grey. they have to of course make it faster and more streamlined yet, but it is better than the last beta, which was very very bloated and didn't look to great from a design standpoint in terms of the new icons and colors used.

It will get better, and this is getting there IMO.

It's going nowhere. It still has all the crap the old one has and an equally worse UI.

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bfoos

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Yes, only first gen testers (those that were invited by MS) are allowed to use the new build for now, as per NDA.

Apatch is a patch engine that allows you to customize the client as you see fit.

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Duke D

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Actually... the default theme isnt that bad at all. I like it now. :) But the dark blue looks horrible.

How come your tray icon is the old wlm 8 one??? Wasn't it changed?

( not that anyone cares but i happen to love the UI )

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leojei

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I have to say, that it looks absoutely horrible in black :x i'm gonna go tell them asap!

This issue has been risen by testers already.

It actually looks pretty decent in gray. :cool:

Yes, that's exactly the colour I'm using. Light blue is also good.

The UI is not good as it is now. It only looks good as a variant of white or light grey. Why allow people to change the color if it only looks good in two colors? I have seen a few concepts/mock ups that are similar to this UI which would have been acceptable. The revert to the older icons was also a bad idea. The fact is that this refresh looks more incomplete than the previous build. Honestly they should have done more before releasing this.

that's the point of beta isn't it? To experiment with different UI and stuffs. The team did not say it's the final UI.

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leojei

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So I'm confused...are there two different classes of testers and only the higher one is allowed access to the the new build? And what's the a-patch thing people are talking about?

(don't shoot me I know i'm a newb)

there are internal testers who get a much frequent builds, technical beta testers, and people who get invited by the first 2 groups of testers. So far only the first 2 groups of testers have access to this refresh...~

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