What is this nonsense MS trying to put in Windows 11? Why have explorer pane show 99% blurred wallpaper when there are few Windows in between? At first I thought it was UI bug. Either have acrylic based translucency or make all windows solid color.
Where is explorer translucent? Screenshots please. Are you talking about modern UI elements, instead?
You didn't notice the Mica effect on the new explorer? The explorer gets 1% translucency of only desktop wallpaper and not everything behind it. So if there is any app behind explorer window, the explorer window will still show translucent wallpaper instead of showing blurred contents of the app. This further confirms my point that Mica effect on explorer is just wasted effort like how "Tiles" were in Windows 8.
Explorer is still the same/opaque, only with rounded corners. Or should I say classic explorer... I think you're talking about windows like Settings, taskbar, etc? Maybe I'm missing something and I haven't tried build .65 (because what is the use) but I'm pretty sure explorer is not translucent in any way whatsoever.
Yeah, you missed it, try build .65, duh. How are you ‘pretty sure’ if you haven’t tried the latest build…?
So put into words what I've missed. Is classic explorer translucent now? Where is it translucent? In the title bars? Inside the nav pane or? No, it isn't. You don't even seem to know the distinction between classic explorer and modern UI elements. Classic explorer has no translucency. For reference, many have been hoping some translucency would come back to classic explorer title bars, hence my original question. What they've changed regarding the UI is "refresh" is now on the new, botched context menu in the .65 build. There is little else as far as UI changes.
No one is talking about classic explorer. The new explorer which is present in 22000.65 build has mica translucency effect which shows extreme blurred wallpaper on area where once ribbon used to be there.
New explorer? What are you talking about? File explorer was redone with paste/copy/etc icons but is a redesigned classic explorer (so could be said to be "new explorer") which is opaque. Are you talking about Settings, Search, etc (modern UI elements) -- these types of windows? Please post a screenshot if you're having trouble describing it. Note that I only asked because of the off-chance MS had actually given transparency to title bars in explorer windows (like Win7) and you description didn't rule that out.
Thank you for the screenshot! Wow, that is on (redesigned) explorer, that is huge news for a bunch of people This might hold modding potential, as you indicate. Finally... MS is making some sense.
Yes, I noticed this too. There is a change when I click on the Explorer window and click on the desktop.
Same here. No such effect, both on physical machine or Hyper-V, maybe with the current trend, you need a 1000$ VGA to get an effect that KDE had in 1999 on a 486 PC