Add Wallpaper engine support for Mica | Cider Collective | Page 1

normal reef Jul 13, 2022, 3:31 PM

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wouldn't that be painful for pc resources like doing Mica for every frame of animated wallpaper?

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as @candid tiger said you can take frame of Wallpaper Engine's wallpaper and set it as System Background

candid tiger Jul 13, 2022, 3:32 PM

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In reguards to using the colour of the window behind it, that is impossible with mica and won’t be added

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That is acrylic which won’t be added

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Even Microsoft apps use mica a similar way we do, by using your desktop wallpaper and using those colours

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If a browser window is behind an app with mica, it will still show the desktop background colours, acrylic is the effect that shows whatever colour, whether that be desktop background or app, behind it

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And since acrylic is not gonna be added, micas all we got

lusty panther Jul 13, 2022, 3:35 PM

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I got you

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Let's see a other people opinion

candid tiger Jul 13, 2022, 3:36 PM

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In terms of pulling the wallpaper from wallpaper engine, it could be done or not idrk

lusty panther Jul 13, 2022, 3:36 PM

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are you a developer?

candid tiger Jul 13, 2022, 3:36 PM

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I am not a developer for cider no (only a theme dev) but I’ve asked to have actylic support implemented many times before and the answer was no

lusty panther Jul 13, 2022, 3:37 PM

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Okay

candid tiger Jul 13, 2022, 3:37 PM

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But you are right

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I don’t speak for devs so see what they have to say

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I agree with you tho that having cider pull your wallpaper engine would be a big help

lusty panther Jul 13, 2022, 3:41 PM

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damn it, when you think about it, there's no way Microsoft can come up with a completely finished and unified transparent UI.

normal reef Jul 13, 2022, 3:41 PM

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but it would take too much resources tbh

glass trout Jul 13, 2022, 3:41 PM

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that would be resource heavy and also, it wont work cuz there is no blur and no shadow type if we import it in mica or in any js whatsoever

languid forge Jul 13, 2022, 3:55 PM

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lusty panther are you a developer?

I'm not a cider member developer ( only contributor). I tell you the mica is a hackky Windows screen frame to take color based on the desktop wallpaper ( as I see in the code) the effects like you want it's imposible, sorry.

languid forge Jul 13, 2022, 4:16 PM

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lusty panther damn it, when you think about it, there's no way Microsoft can come up with a co...

This things are not a problem to Microsoft or cider team. It's because electron is a modded chromiun running inside a custom html local page

lusty panther Jul 13, 2022, 4:21 PM

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I accidentally deleted the first message xd

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