--- title: Changing the Default Style in Slint — Deprecating... description: Slint 1.16 makes Fluent the default UI style across all platforms, replacing the previous platform-adaptive approach that maintained separate Fluent (Windows),... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/changing-the-default-style-in-slint-deprecating-native-looking-styles-slint-blog-ph0kt41ab twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Changing the Default Style in Slint — Deprecating Native-Looking Styles — Slint Blog | daily.dev og:description: Slint 1.16 makes Fluent the default UI style across all platforms, replacing the previous platform-adaptive approach that maintained separate Fluent (Windows),... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/changing-the-default-style-in-slint-deprecating-native-looking-styles-slint-blog-ph0kt41ab og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ph0Kt41AB.png og:image:alt: Changing the Default Style in Slint — Deprecating Native-Looking Styles — Slint Blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Changing the Default Style in Slint — Deprecating Native-Looking Styles — Slint Blog **[Slint](https://daily.dev/sources/slint)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Slint 1.16 makes Fluent the default UI style across all platforms, replacing the previous platform-adaptive approach that maintained separate Fluent (Windows), Cupertino (macOS/iOS), Material (Android), and Qt (Linux) styles. The decision stems from the unsustainable cost of maintaining five parallel widget implementations, which slowed feature development. Non-Fluent styles will receive fewer updates and eventually be deprecated, though the 'native' style option remains available. Platform-specific behaviors like scrolling physics are preserved. The team plans to invest in easier custom style creation to compensate for the loss of native-looking styles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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