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In a world where people like transparent windows, they've forever suffered the "dark text on dark background" (or, light text on light background). The latest glass plugin for kwin now has dynamic tinting. The example demonstrates the pixel level dynamic tinting. The setup for the demo was a full screen random youtube video playing below konsole. Dynamic tinting enabled with a tint color set to #ffb7b7b7

recorded on my 2015 macbook air (a classic).

Edit: Link to the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MieluM0c6c

I like transparency. I also like being able to read text. As such, I needed a mechanism that allowed my windows to be transparent when the can and have a decent tint level when they need. I've just pushed changes to kwin-effects-glass that allows the alpha channel of the tint color to automatically adjust based on the average color of whatever is underneath the window.

The video shows a terminal window that is (almost) transparent when above the dark wallpaper, but is clearly darkened when above the white browser window.

(I normally have a lot more blur with my windows. Blur is set to 0 for demonstration purposes only.)

As everyone loves the macOS clones, here's another one.

This one features:

• the macOS 27 golden sh*wer wallpapers in both dark and light modes (from basicappleguy.com)
• panel colorizer for the top panel (store.kde.org)
• Glass application theme and window decorations: (github.com)
• Glass kwin effect: (github.com)
• Clay Glaze icons: (store.kde.org)
• firefox userChrome CSS: (github.com)
• liquid glass kde widgets: (github.com)

I made some adjustments to my kwin effects plugin to match the new liquid glass widgets (see here)

(Of course there will still be haters).

background: Sakura from the floral collection by Basic Apple Guy: https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/floral

icons: Clay Glaze: https://store.kde.org/p/2319410
Everything else: https://github.com/4v3ngR/

Just sharing some updates to my kwin effects glass plugin.

• lots more configuration options
• different blur levels for docks, decorations, and content
• tint exclusions for docks, tooltips, and decoarations
• dynamic corner exclusions for docks, tooltips, menus
• rounded rectangle content regions
• a new physics based (Snell refraction) glass shader
• lots of bug fixes

Thanks to everyone who's submitted bug reports and patches.

Edit: repo here