Home windows 11 is out, however the means of updating the working system’s built-in apps continues. Over the weekend, screenshots leaked for an as-yet-unannounced redesign of the Notepad app, which presently appears and works kind of because it has since Home windows XP got here out twenty years in the past (although under-the-hood updates have added new capabilities, like support for the line-ending style utilized in Linux and macOS textual content recordsdata).
The screenshots had been posted and deleted by a “Microsoft engineer” however had been preserved by FireCubeStudios on Twitter, and so they counsel that Microsoft is not reinventing Notepad within the fashion of extra superior apps like Notepad++ or Emacs. The screenshots present fewer menu choices and a bigger, extra touch-friendly quantity of padding between them, in addition to theming choices and the power to set a distinct default font. Additionally listed is a “Traditional” mode for opening recordsdata, although precisely how that differs from the default expertise stays to be seen.
The leaked model of Notepad seems to help darkish mode (not proven right here however implied by the “app theme” choice), plus the power to alter the default font.
The unfinished state of Home windows 11’s built-in apps was one grievance from our full review, and it is one thing that retains the working system from feeling totally modernized and unified. The Paint app has been up to date, however with out the promised dark mode support. Updates for apps like Your Cellphone, Microsoft Whiteboard, some type of media participant, and (now) Notepad have been leaked or introduced however not launched. And different built-in apps like Wordpad nonetheless seem like they did in Home windows 7.
This can be a minor grievance and much much less disruptive than Home windows 11’s new system necessities or among the regressions of the brand new Taskbar. Nevertheless it’s good that Microsoft is constant to work to get issues feeling and looking extra constant all through the OS. When out there, the app updates shall be downloadable from the Microsoft Retailer somewhat than Home windows Replace.
