Edge – Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web

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  • altdrag

    :file_folder: Easily drag windows when pressing the alt key. (Windows)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • easy-move-resize

    Adds "modifier key + mouse drag" move and resize to OSX

  • wpf-color-picker

    Standalone wpf color picker

    This one looks pretty solid. There are loads of them. The demos I’ve seen all showcase live feedback.

    https://superguigui.github.io/simple-color-picker/

    Compare to the best I can find for WPF: https://github.com/dsafa/wpf-color-picker - no live feedback, dialog only, no documented support for modern .NET. There are some commercial controls available from syncfusion and the like if you want to pay for such things.

    Compare to color dialog in WinForms: https://github.com/Kinnara/ModernWpf/issues/72

    WinUI has a decent color picker, but there are other trade offs going with WinUI that make it inferior to the web environment (e.g. broken rendering of SVG/paths).

  • ModernWpf

    Modern styles and controls for your WPF applications

    This one looks pretty solid. There are loads of them. The demos I’ve seen all showcase live feedback.

    https://superguigui.github.io/simple-color-picker/

    Compare to the best I can find for WPF: https://github.com/dsafa/wpf-color-picker - no live feedback, dialog only, no documented support for modern .NET. There are some commercial controls available from syncfusion and the like if you want to pay for such things.

    Compare to color dialog in WinForms: https://github.com/Kinnara/ModernWpf/issues/72

    WinUI has a decent color picker, but there are other trade offs going with WinUI that make it inferior to the web environment (e.g. broken rendering of SVG/paths).

  • EmptyWM

    It's a Win32 application that hides in the system tray and adds some features to the desktop similar to a Linux Window Manager

    >AltDrag

    That's awesome, I remember when I was a CS student in college I also fell in love with the alt+drag of windows on Linux and I wanted to bring the same on my Windows PC so I wrote this extremely hacky and very unstable tool: https://github.com/Morgawr/EmptyWM

    It was one of my first "open source" projects and a great learning experience, I would never recommend anyone to use it because it was full of bugs (also I haven't touched it in like 10+ years) but I used it every day and it was such a great feeling just being able to improve my own life with tools I created myself. :)

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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