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> So yes, it will be fixed, and the fix is easy. They just have to accept the fact that the "liquid" part They tried it in betas. De-emphasizing "liquid glass"
by troupo 1y ago
> So yes, it will be fixed, and the fix is easy. They just have to accept the fact that the "liquid" part
They tried it in betas. De-emphasizing "liquid glass" just turns everything into a dirty blur.
The difference from Aero is that Microsoft was smart and never applied the effects to contents of things: it was always in windows chrome, and never in the controls or toolbars.
Liquid Glass boasts glass/transparency/translucency/distortions basically everywhere. As betas show, they didn't test it even with the most basic real-world scenarios, and they cannot easily fix it without turning it off or making it quite ugly.
- int_19h 1y agoIt wasn't just chrome in Vista. The taskbar was translucent, large parts of the Start menu were translucent, window titles were translucent (including minimize/maximize/close buttons). And controls and toolbars were bleeding into the chrome part of windows, so while the widgets themselves were opaque, they were placed on translucent background. And for some apps they went all in, e.g. Media Player. Here's a random screenshot from image search: https://live.staticflickr.com/90/245324637_1e615ef573_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/90/245324637_1e615ef573_b.jpg I remember going into settings and turning it all off because of how annoying it was. But then Win7 came and turned up the frosted glass effect throughout, and that largely fixed all the outstanding issues.
- troupo 1y agoIt's funny because I saw this image side by side with Liquid Glass (can't find the tweet right now), and Vista looked almost opaque in comparison :) Hence my comment. Memory is a funny thing