Installer in updater is blurry on hidpi screen

[Poopooracoocoo]

Environment

Windows build number: 10.0.19041.329
PowerToys version: 0.19.2
PowerToy module for which you are reporting the bug (if applicable):

Steps to reproduce

Update PowerToys?

Expected behavior

PowerToys' updater would not be blurry

Actual behavior

PowerToys' updater is blurry

Screenshots

[enricogior]

Won't be fixed in WiX 3.x wixtoolset/issues#3920

[yllekz]

Is this still being considered? The latest installer is blurry on a Surface Pro 6.

[crutkas]

this is due to Wix, doubtful we will be able to fix it. We will be upgrading chances are to Wix 4 so this may be corrected in the future but it is something outside our control currently.

[Poopooracoocoo]

Why does PowerToys use Wix instead of your own stuff?

[franky920920]

@Poopooracoocoo see: #15050 and other issues :)

[Poopooracoocoo]

@franky920920 Mind doing a TL;DR? I don't see MSIX packaging or installation mentioned anywhere either. Last I heard about the MSIX story was that the PowerToys team had issues and feature requests that they were tracking. If MSIX wasn't ready for their own apps then why would they promote it? One would expect Microsoft to use their own technologies... And surely after several years the MSIX people would've done some work on it?!

[crutkas]

Msix applies a container over the app. For most apps, this works seamlessly and great.

Powertoys is a good representative of every app but in itself highly specialized since we do so many things across the board for deep shell integration. For a certain things we do, the container impacts what we are able to do. A lot of things we do are hard to debug and adding in the container adds another layer of complexity.

We are working with the MSIX team to be sure our scenarios are properly handled.

Switching installer tech is a massive undertaking too