Improving design

[bjorno43]

The overall design of the program can be improved in a number of ways. The most wanted feature for me as a Dark and Light mode that users can switch to. But this is a very open enhancement request. If you'd like to take upon you, you'll have a lot of freedom if using your own imagination and come up with nice ideas!

[maratmuginov]

I suggest a move to WPF early on in the project. XAML will allow us unlimited customization, and its built in support for MVVM will allow for the proper separation of concerns and unit testing.

[bjorno43]

@maratmuginov Although I have no issue with moving to WPF, there were a few problems with using that in this project. Can't really recall the actual issue, but it had to do with the file browsers not being supported in WPF in that the way they're being used in this project. That's why I decided not to do it when I started working on this.

But you're more than welcome to have a look at this. If you can get to work, I'm definitely interested!

[maratmuginov]

@bjorno43 I am familiar with the issue of file browsers in WPF. There are four possible solutions -

1. Microsoft.Win32 managed namespace provides access to the SaveFile / OpenFIle dialogs only.
2. Referencing System.Windows.Forms and using its dialogs.
3. Hooking into Windows.SDK.Contracts and using UWP dialogs.
4. Windows API CodePack Shell - an extension to Win32 dialogs that allows us a OpenFileDialog style for folder picking (.NET Framework only).

If this was the only issue with WPF, we can pick one of these solutions and move to WPF.