List of ideas

[Jay-o-Way]

🏗️🧰 Build

• convert a few Bool to Enum
  • if there's a ComboBox, then there are multiple options; use an Enum in the background and update x:Bind
  • example: switch type = {time, location, coordinates, night light}
  • example: update channel = {stable, beta}
  • update frequency* (to be determined)
• remove all old and unneeded code and packages (check default framework behavior, online docs) ❗
  • Add new windowing APIs microsoft/WinUI-Gallery#1811
  • clean up controls, helpers, converters et cetera. (also look at the Community Toolkit) ❗
• check accessibility
• check performance
• check scaling ✔️
• check Windows 10 compatibility ✔️
• check right-to-left OS ❌
• use XAML Styler: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TeamXavalon.XAMLStyler
• use Copilot: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/github-copilot/

🪟🖱️ User Interface

• idea: Update frequency - I would just use: "every day/week/month"
  • maybe combine with "on startup"
  • maybe use "never" instead of Toggle?

🗄️📚 Repository

• update documentation for developers
• update documentation for users
• update issues
  • About: https://docs.github.com/en/issues
  • Types: https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/configuring-issues/managing-issue-types-in-an-organization
  • Templates: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository
• update PR flows

[Armin2208]

rename Apps (page, code and viewmodel) to something better

This is also a goal that I have. But it was really hard to find a good name for that. Currently I like something like "system areas". But it's still not perfect.

choose: custom time or custom hours?

Time would be better, I think hours is a remnats of old days there Auto Dark Mode did not support minutes (yes!)

remove prefixes from resource data names

I don't know what's the default and best praxis, but for me it's way more clear what a string does, if it contains the place where it shows.

rename "Donation" to "Support" (less focus on money) and emphasize developer help is welcome!

Good idea.

maybe: merge About + Donation* pages?

Nope, it does not fit together and we want to promote donations / support.

split resources in multiple files (no priority)

I think this could help for the clearity

[Jay-o-Way]

it's way more clear what a string does, if it contains the place where it shows

But that's the point: strings are used in different places/controls

[Armin2208]

But that's the point: strings are used in different places/controls

Yes sometimes, but not often.

[Jay-o-Way]

I can give this subject some thought and come up with some suggestions later...

[Spiritreader]

check Windows 10 compatibility

This one is also quite important, as we want to keep ADM working on Windows 10 systems.

[Jay-o-Way]

[ChenYiLins]

Yep, excessive separation of modules makes things more complicated >﹏<.

[Jay-o-Way]

I was thinking... Technically, the App Window is all about settings. So, having a menu item "Settings" doesn't really make sense. Right? 🤔

[ChenYiLins]

In terms of expression, I think this is more inclined to the setting of ADM App itself? It's just that we are used to placing an item named Settings at the bottom of the navigation bar.

[Jay-o-Way]

True. It just feels "double". The left navigation style, with Settings item, is also good for apps that only need one page for settings. I think an item called "General" or "App" would also be good in our case. But no priority.

[Armin2208]

"Settings" is not an option, just like "General".