Re: Idea for Improving Vibrancy

2015-02-17 Thread Jonathan Hull
If you wanted to do this, I would grab the desktop image somehow, apply the effect to it once, and then use (a shifting portion of) that image as the background of your Source View, etc…. That way there is no need to mess with additional windows, or apply the expensive effect continually. Ther

Re: Idea for Improving Vibrancy

2015-02-16 Thread Carl Hoefs
On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:34 AM, Roland King wrote: > And for anyone, like me, who doesn't like the vibrancy effect, you can turn > it off in preferences. Is this the right setting: “◽ Disable Windows® look and feel” -Carl ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (

Re: Idea for Improving Vibrancy

2015-02-16 Thread Seth Willits
Ugh. Mail used the wrong address again and bounced this... -- Seth Willits > On Feb 15, 2015, at 9:54 PM, Seth Willits wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2015, at 6:13 AM, Charles Jenkins wrote: > >> Is this possible, do you think, to open a window that always hides directly >> behind the working wind

Re: Idea for Improving Vibrancy

2015-02-16 Thread Roland King
Hmm this thread is rapidly heading towards moderation - like the last one we had on vibrancy. To the original poster - nice that you made the suggestion/bug report to Apple, I don't think you're going to get far with that but who knows. I think the effort involved in rolling your own moving wi

Re: Idea for Improving Vibrancy

2015-02-16 Thread Alex Zavatone
I'm so happy I'm not the first guy to think "kill it". Kill it. On Feb 16, 2015, at 7:17 AM, Greg Weston wrote: >>> I have an idea for improving vibrancy >> >> Me too. Kill it. > > Ditto. I look at vibrancy as Apple showing Microsoft how to do Glass right > without questioning whether it shou

Re: Idea for Improving Vibrancy

2015-02-16 Thread Greg Weston
>> I have an idea for improving vibrancy > > Me too. Kill it. Ditto. I look at vibrancy as Apple showing Microsoft how to do Glass right without questioning whether it should be done at all. To me, "consume extra resources in order to reduce the usability of the system" is a fundamentally flaw

Re: Idea for Improving Vibrancy

2015-02-15 Thread Graham Cox
> On 16 Feb 2015, at 1:13 am, Charles Jenkins wrote: > > I have an idea for improving vibrancy Me too. Kill it. --Graham ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.

Re: Idea for Improving Vibrancy

2015-02-15 Thread Quincey Morris
I think the real technical limitation is performance. An extra window means more memory usage (for backing stores), more CPU and/or GPU processing (for compositing backing stores), and more power consumption (shorter battery life). You also have to be a bit careful about going your own way on th