Well, the user has selected a desktop wallpaper he likes, presumably with a pleasing color scheme. Taking vibrancy from an image the user has already indicated a preference for is much kinder than blurring in whatever happens to be in a window behind the foreground app.
— Charles Jenkins On Monday, January 5, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > > On 5 Jan 2015, at 11:58 pm, Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com > > (mailto:cejw...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > > if there's a way to tell the window server to use only the desktop image to > > create vibrancy effects in a the sidebar, ignoring any other windows which > > may lie between my app and the desktop > > > Would you really want that, even if it could be done? The effect would be > that your active window was cutting a hole through the underlying windows to > reveal the desktop. As much as the translucency effect is annoying and a > performance drag, it is at least consistent with the layered windows > metaphor. You'd be better off just making your window entirely opaque, and I > think we should be doing that to send Apple the message that we don't want > the stinking translucency effect. > > --Graham _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
