Proposal: Provide an additional TabView "skin" that is based on the WCT TabView

Proposal: Provide an additional TabView “skin” that is based on the WCT look

Summary

A lot of people coming from the Windows Community Toolkit TabView prefer the look of the WCT TabView compared to the WinUI TabView. To make the switch to the WinUI TabView easier, we should have a WinUI TabView style which is based on the look of the WCT TabView.

Rationale

Since the WCT TabView is deprecated now, and will be removed at some point, people would either need to move the WinUI TabView despite prefering the WCT look or fork the WCT TabView and maintain it themselves. By providing a style that uses the WinUI TabView and looks like the WCT TabView, we would allow people to use the style they prefer.

This is also something some people already asked about (to some degree): Request to have the WinUI TabView styled the same as the WCT Wish to have Acrylic and Reveal in WinUI TabView

Important Notes

Possible API:

<!-- WinUI Fluent TabView -->
<muxc:TabView />

<!-- WinUI TabView with look based on WCT-->
<muxc:TabView Style="{StaticResource BoxTabViewStyle}" />

Comparison

WinUI TabView

WCT TabView

Open Questions

Where should this new style be hosted? Inside WinUI since it is a WinUI control or maybe somewhere else?

What should the new “skin” be called?

[chingucoding]

@chingucoding could you provide pictures as well?

Sure thing @StephenLPeters, I’ve updated the issue to include gifs and pictures showing both versions.

[mdtauk]

I would expect this be a named style as opposed to an API on TabView. @chigy Is there a precedent/pattern for providing multiple styles for the same control ?

There is the AccentButton Style, as well as an Icon Button and Text Button