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Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out

windows settings screenshot with a hyperlinnk labelled "changing taskbar colour"
bing search for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com" (UK spelling). there are no search results, but there's a suggestion box thing with some text about what the windows 11 personalisation settings are capable of, and a button labelled "open colors setting" (US spelling)
microsoft edge popup window reading "this site is trying to open settings. https://www.bing.com wants to open this application.", with the options "open" and "cancel". "cancel" is highlighted in blue, and "open" is grey.
windows settings screenshot. "show accent colour on start and taskbar" is disabled.
hazelnot :yell:

@lynnesbian UI designer here, it's a mix of corporate greed (the Bing/Edge nonsense) and just bad UX design (you apparently have to switch the theme to "Dark" or "Custom" - if you select Custom you then have to switch "Windows mode" to dark first 💀 - for that toggle to get enabled from what I've seen, never used Windows 11 though)

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