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Acrylic title bar
Well, actually this is a feature that I'd like to see in the whole OS, but since it existed in the old Edge, I'd love to see it in the Chromium version as well
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Through a 3rd party dev, was able to get Edge Chromium to use acrylic title bars and it is absolutely stunning. Microsoft should definitely integrate this natively into the app. So for those who think its not possible, if a 3rd party dev is able to do it, Microsoft should be able to.
matthewj15 this isn't true acrylic, this is Aero Glass with an acrylic type effect which has been hacked into the core OS, as your explorer window gives away. They won't be able to add true acrylic effects to Edge.
filetrekker1360 wrote:matthewj15 this isn't true acrylic, this is Aero Glass with an acrylic type effect which has been hacked into the core OS, as your explorer window gives away. They won't be able to add true acrylic effects to Edge.
Why not? any technical reasons?
matthewj15 wrote:Through a 3rd party dev, was able to get Edge Chromium to use acrylic title bars and it is absolutely stunning. Microsoft should definitely integrate this natively into the app. So for those who think its not possible, if a 3rd party dev is able to do it, Microsoft should be able to.
Wow that is stunning. Awesome job!
please share the program with us, would love to give it a try.
HotCakeX this is the "hack" being used - http://www.glass8.eu/ - but I don't recommend it because it's broken in Windows 10 1909 and tends to screw things up with major update releases.
Hi SOI_7, thank you. We have heard that many people want us to extend our Fluent design, including Acrylic, to the preview channels of our browser. We are still working on our user experience, and are trying to be very careful with the performance impact of these changes.
- Personally, I think a better way to go would be not a transparent title bar but rather a design like Safari on macOS where the entire top browser chrome shows part of the website underneath (the Microsoft Store app also does this). The problem with transparent title bars is that they can get ugly depending on what's underneath (I'm looking at you, OneNote under old Edge).
- Does Edge classic's title bar get ugly depending on what's underneath?
any example of contents that can maybe it ugly?
Is that true (no acrylic for win32) Elliot Kirk ? Can you answer that? It's not that these forums are flooded with comments for you to miss (ignore?) these.
Hi chivoyage, we are very aware of the ask for Acrylic touches on the window chrome. So far we have been focusing on all of the controls that show up in the browser, updating them to match our current Fluent design specifications. Many of these changes are subtle, but they add up. I believe that Drew1903 has posted some side by side screenshots that make the changes that we have made more obvious. We are still continuing the work to update the user interface. I don't have a timeline for Acrylic changes. Thanks - Elliot
Elliot Kirk "We are still working on our user experience, and are trying to be very careful with the performance impact of these changes."
So long as transparency and other visual effects can be turned off (e.g. Control Panel, System and Security, System, Advanced system settings, Advanced tab, Performance, which is what I use along with turning off transparency to eliminate the visual effects that affect performance/battery) it makes sense for Edge Chromium to be consistent with Fluid Design principles.
I like the idea of a toggle (Fluid Design versus Performance Design, for example) switch in W10 Settings that would change design/performance settings across Windows 10.
Acrylic isn't possible in Win32 apps, and so the Edge team are trying to just hide / bury this fact under various excuses. Acrylic will never come to Edge Chromium until Windows itself supports acrylic in Win32, which it probably never will either.
