![]() This would enable animations and such in the UI, and it would also help with high-DPI scenarios (as the Windows 7 gadgets’ visuals were nothing more than one big folder of PNG files). I would suggest that they be reimplemented in WPF (or, over the long term, WinUI 3). That being said, many of the gadgets in the screenshots that posted above would make excellent PowerToys. IMHO, attempting to recreate this would be a huge timesink for little gain. Even if the original gadget platform code was open-sourced (which likely won't ever happen, as it was part of Windows core, and Microsoft is very allergic to open-sourcing parts of that codebase), such a project would run into a number of unavoidable bugs related to Internet Explorer being a newer version than what shipped with Windows 7 RTM. Keep in mind the original gadget platform implementation was very dependent on an outdated version of the Trident rendering engine. ![]()
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