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On one hand, I get the desire for transparency, having sought after it for many years, esp. back when it was a rarefied commodity. But these days I find I'm mo
by saidajigumi 11y ago
On one hand, I get the desire for transparency, having sought after it for many years, esp. back when it was a rarefied commodity. But these days I find I'm mostly only in favor of either fully opaque windows or transparency that's darn near fully opaque. Just enough transparency to hint that there's something tucked behind a full- or half- screen window. I find that it's too just easy to compromise contrast and readability in editor windows.
- userbinator 11y agoI find that transparency is most useful on small screens where you don't want to put windows side-by-side but still want to see both; e.g. I'd have documentation in a lower window and put my editor on top with transparency. Occasionally I'd have 3 or even 4 windows in a transparency stack, but it gets increasingly harder to read with more layers. Here's a small utility for Windows that should be able to adjust transparency of any window, including Atom (I haven't tried but it's worked on most every other window): http://www.vanmiddlesworth.org/vitrite/ http://www.vanmiddlesworth.org/vitrite/