Time for some important news!
The WinForms frontend for Launchpad will be deprecated in the next release, which means all users MUST have the GTK# runtime installed, or the launcher will not start. This shouldn’t affect the majority of users, but some of you may not have installed the GTK# runtime for .NET.
As for what it means for the launcher, you’re going to get more UI updates from here on out. Any fixes that previously only went into the Linux version will now apply to all platforms. I’ve gotten rid of the old graphics and gone for something a bit more lightweight, and the launcher now inherits the full theming support from GTK. In visuals, this means the launcher can go from this
to this
to high-contrast for the visually impaired like this
or maybe something a bit more Windows 10?
All by changing the loaded GTK theme!
If you don’t have the GTK# runtime installed, download it here, install it and reboot your computer.
I currently don’t have a release date for the next version, but I wanted to get this out there as early as possible so I didn’t break any existing installations. You can expect me to roll it out mid-august, but I don’t have a set date.