[UI/UX] Update the look & feel of the GUI

[og-mrk]

Note

The goal of this PR (Polishing UI) will require multiple days of continuous trial & error before finalizing the changes.. so I'll open this PR as draft for the time being.

Type of Change

• UI/UX improvement

Description

Makes several changes to the UI to polish the looks & feels of GUI.

Add @CodingWonders to the About Dialog (under MicroWin) - commit b001842

Add a Link Hover Effect for About & Sponsors Windows

Commit Summery

• b001842 Add @CodingWonders to the About page for his contribution and determination to make WinUtil (and MicroWin) the best software it can be!
• cb21a39 Remove the 'LogoSize' Parameter for About page - Make every sponsor in the sponsors list a link to ChrisTitusTech's Sponsors web link
• ce5ebca Change Theme Option name from 'ConfigTabButtonFontSize' to 'ConfigUpdateButtonFontSize' - Lower its value from 16 to 14
• 12446c5 Change Theme Option name from 'FontSizeHeading' to 'HeadingFontSize' for consistency
• 46e457d Update 'LinkForegroundColor' for Light Theme to be lighter which'll make link hover color more noticeable
• 1502443 Update 'Show-CustomDialog' Private Function
  • Made a lot of theming/styling choices for Custom Dialogs exposed as parameters.
  • Update the documentation for these new parameters in 'Show-CustomDialog' Function.
  • Add a Link Hover Effect using 'Add_EVENT' methods (This can be tweaks/tuned-down if needed).
  • Made use of 'Title' Parameter for 'Show-CustomDialog' Function inside 'scripts/main.ps1' script, to change Dialog Window Title.
  • Now you can change the Logo Size of WinUtil through the 'LogoSize' Theming Option (the option was there, but not used in implementation).
• d535e7e Preprocessing result
• 0e7a34c Merge branch 'main' into ui-ux/update-to-look-and-feel-of-the-ui

Testing

So far, WinUtil Compiles and runs successfully, on both PS 5 & 7.

Note

at the time of writing, compiling in PowerShell 5 does not work, this problem was fixed by @ruxunderscore in his PR (#2865), and it's waiting to be reviewed & merged, so for the time being... I recommend either compiling/running WinUtil from PowerShell 7 (PWSH), or applying Rux 's patches to compile & run under PowerShell 5.

Impact

This'll improve the user experience a bit by making the UI more polished.

Additional Information

If anyone has the time to test this PR & provide feedback on the changes, then it'll be appreciated 😄

Checklist

• My code adheres to the coding and style guidelines of the project.
• I have performed a self-review of my own code.
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas.
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation.
• My changes generate no errors/warnings/merge conflicts.

[CodingWonders]

This is a good change. LGTM. Thanks, @og-mrk!

By the way, I like the mention in the About screen

[MyDrift-user]

I like this, but I had an Idea that we also may implement to combine styling logic of main window and customdialog. What do you think about it?

Copied this from discord server convo:

We could move the styles to a ressource director, making the existing xaml file easier to understand and maintanance on style/actual content easier. That entire resource directory could be then loaded into the xaml of the main window and the customdialog, making it's theming also way easier and identical to main window ones.

Can't really look into it rn, but this is what chatgpt suggested.
https://chatgpt.com/share/67041af5-119c-800d-b664-752030177f17

• better maintainability
• non redundant code for styling
• style of both window and customdialogs are the same