But does anyone really think of glass? How would glass help with familiarity? Lots of hardcore digital people always had their terminals set to transparent. Mic

But does anyone really think of glass? How would glass help with familiarity? Lots of hardcore digital people always had their terminals set to transparent. Microsoft (following Apple^) did the same and add a blur for usability reasons. If MS suddenly declared that the solid blue shapes in Windows 8 are solid-colored origami paper, would the same interface suddenly be worse because it was skeuomorphic? (^ I'm not talking about the mirror Dock in 10.5, but about the transparent modal dialogs with a blur in 10.5+(?), and the old 10.4 Dock.)