Huih, this complete transparancy is annoying and it´s nessessary to run the second tool in background to get this work. It´s a way but imho not a good one.
I tried a complete transparency on Win7 via a patched .dll but you are right, full transparency is not good to work with. Rather than it looking 'glassy' it just looks like nothing with a border around it. Plus very confusing to see the window order when stacked.
Transparency is distracting and useless without Blur and that can't even be seen as opinion, anyone who can actually work on a PC with this crap enabled.. respect.
Yep, to make the desktop look coherent to this "Metro"-CRAP. Uninstalled this useless stuff and disabled the rest via StartIsBack .
That anyone is aware of, has Microsoft ever given an explanation for eliminating Glass in Win8? I know there's been a lot of speculation regarding performance on less powerful devices, etc., but I've never read any posts about Microsoft's intention.
That skeuomorphism he's talking about - some love it, some hate it. Same thing with Windows 8. I see the fact that MS tries to unify the interface of Windows-WinPhone-Win RT-Xbox and that's a good idea. The only went wrong with is the implementation of that interface unification. They should have this common interface pop-up only inside the SYNCHRONIZATION application not and around the OS.
I can "repeat" bLend without stupid transparency All we need is quick window repaint to fix the transparency. If anybody interested I can make a tool
I don't have any major complaints with Win 8. I use Classic Start to get both the start menu AND the start screen. I use both. I've replaced the desktop gadgets, too, I don't accept MS' reasons for their removal. If MS had left well enough alone with blur/transparency, it'd be their best effort so far. The CP/RP were fine. I can see NO reason for removing them (unless it was as punishment for those who biatched about the new Start Screen/Apps etc).
Yeah, I think the nice solution could be extend Aero 8 Tuner. It can have slightly different approarch for refreshing, so it would not "steal focus" from active app and an option to make inner window opaque. It can provide also some special theme (I can manage it in different colors) to have nice blurred frame borders, not only total transparency. BTW: What I mean by "stealing focus": I describe as that term such behavior, when other application (sometimes unknown) make itself active and your current window of application with which you work (browser, word processor) become inactive, so your keyboard input is no longer written in that app.