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[Glass] Transparent effect do not support the glass mode #266

Open zty012 opened 1 year ago

zty012 commented 1 year ago

OS: Windows 11

enable the transparent effects in settings

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then enable glass mode

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uhhhhh there are something in the taskbar

gileli121 commented 1 year ago

@shikukuya Thanks for the report.

Unfortunately, the Glass feature is unstable and never worked well enough.

99% of the users probably stopped using it anyway because it is unstable and works very slowly.

In addition, this feature seems unneeded, from what I can tell from most users.

Unlike the "Glass," I do see users that ask for the "Dark Mode" feature.

But the "Dark Mode" feature also stopped being stable after Windows 11.

So during the last two weeks, I invested a lot of time in rewriting the renderer engine for the "Dark Mode" feature, but it also came with a cost - I did not rewrite the "Glass" feature, so now it will be deleted in the future WindowTop releases.

I hope that you are okay with this decision. When something is unstable, can't be done right, and is not needed by most users, it is better not to include it anyway.

If you are interested in the Dark Mode feature, please test the last version here and let me know if it works stable for you. https://github.com/BiGilSoft/WindowTop/issues/264

Thank you!

gileli121 commented 1 year ago

@shikukuya After reading the user feedback survey again, I realized I was wrong about this.

I decided to keep this feature up also in future versions. The glass effect will get a few improvements from #264, such as a better image detection algorithm and better rendering speed.

gileli121 commented 1 year ago

And it is possible to fix the bug with the help of Direct2D filters.

I will work on it when I finish with #264