# ThawUI roadmap

> The design Thaw and Floe share: what is being built and what has shipped.

ThawUI is the set of controls, colours, type and motion that Thaw and Floe are built from. Its code is moving to [its own repository](https://github.com/thaw-app/ThawUI) from [Thaw’s](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/tree/development/ThawUI), and Floe keeps a copy of it for now. This is the plan as it stands, not a promise.

## Now

What is being built, for the next releases of Thaw and Floe.

### Thaw

- **A new design.** Settings is being made more like macOS’s own apps. The sidebar puts the everyday pages first, and long pages show one tab at a time.
- **Fewer switches.** Every setting is being gone through: some become default behaviour and some go away, and panes are merged. Experiments either graduate or get removed. It began in 3.0.0-alpha.4, which removed the Advanced pane. 3.0.0-beta.3 removed Thaw Bar Only and two Troubleshooting buttons, 3.0.0-alpha.11 turned two switches into one Hidden items picker, and 2.2.0-beta.1 merged several in Thaw 2.

### Thaw and Floe

- **One look across both apps.** Their interfaces are being brought together on the same shared components, so a control looks and works the same in each.

## Shipped

What has shipped, by release, newest first. The changelogs have the detail.

### Thaw 3.0.0-beta.4

- Simple Mode fits on one page: a preview of your sections, then a few settings
- Short choices are pills
- Buttons are capsules
- Long pages show one tab at a time
- Main buttons and checkboxes are see-through gold
- Selected rows look the same everywhere
- The permissions window looks like the welcome screens

### Floe 0.1.0

- Floe’s Settings uses Thaw’s controls
- Floe’s Settings pages have tabs
- The launcher can follow Thaw’s menu bar appearance

### Thaw 3.0.0 alphas

- Fifteen Settings panes became a grouped sidebar
- Onboarding in the same style as the rest of the app

Last brought up to date on 30 October 2026.