Does WindowBliinds8 restore full Aero glass capability on Win8.x?

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I've been holding off on upgrading to Windows 8.x until I know for sure I wont lose the Aero Glass/Blur for my titlebar/frames and start menu; since these effects are essential for my WB theme to look great.

I've done multiple google/image searches on Google for WB8 and Win8.1.  From what I can tell, it looks like Stardock developers have only been able to restore basic transparency effect; with no ability to adjust blur (I hope I'm wrong).  If this is true, will blur be supported soon?  I know that there are at least a couple of different developers that already figured out how to do this very nicely; at least on the titlebar and Windowframes.

http://glass8.berlios.de

http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.204


I'm curious if it would be unrealistic for me to expect WB8 to have full support for Windows Aero Glass/Blur on the native Windows 8.1 Start Menu, Titlebars/frames, TaskBar, and system pulldown menus?

If that's not a possibility, maybe it's possible to supplement WindowBlinds8 with the above AeroGlass enhancements.  Hopefully, I'm not the first person who's interested in restoring full Aero Glass effect for their WB8 theme under Win8.x; and, there's good information on how to do this.

 

Thanks in advance,

MKANET





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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks.  Yes, I know MS took blur out.  I didn't find any definitive information from Stardock developers if/when Aero glass would be fully restored or not.  I know it might be difficult to do; but, it's definitely possible (2 working proof of concepts posted above by two separate developers).  Also, I'm curious if anyone actually tried using the fixes above along with their WB8 skin on Win8.x in the meantime.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I've tried them both and they don't work with Windowblinds. Any window not skinned by windowblinds will get the full blur effect, but any windowblinds skinned windows will either be opaque or transparent with no blur.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks 1/4 Life.  I appreciate you letting me know.  I guess, we'll wait and see what happens with WB 8.1 beta...

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

No problem. It would be an easy fix for Stardock to support this method of adding Aero Glass, since it works the same as Windows 7's glass. They just need to 'apply' glass on the Win8 version.

 

We'll see what they do I guess.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm curious if this issue was resolved; as, I haven't upgraded to Windows 8.1 (this issue being one of the main reasons).

 

I depend on the transparency effect to get a peak at what's behind my active windows.  However. WITHOUT the blur effect, overlapped transparency windows can become are hard to read (defeating the whole purpose of having a usable transparency effect

 

I currently use Windows 7 64bit (with a WB theme that takes full advantage of Aero Blur effect). 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting MKANET, reply 6

I depend on the transparency effect to get a peak at what's behind my active windows.
End of MKANET's quote
 
Quoting MKANET, reply 6

I haven't upgraded to Windows 8.1 (you are kidding about upgrade, right?)
End of MKANET's quote

Then don't waste time on 8. PERIOD