Illuminous. See the light.
That is what I call the graphical compositing engine that I put into laststep, my little one-man-OS-project. After another incredible odyssey into code and how to make things happen, I finally managed to put together a mechanism for compositing that’s really fast, and looks nice.
The active window (of which there should only be one at any one time) has a visibility of 95%, so only very little transparency. Inactive windows have a 75% visibility.
I did this for the idea that the window (or program) you are working with right now is the prominent one, where as the others sort of step back, and wait to become active again.
Interestingly, ImageMagick cannot take screenshots of windows which had their translucency property changed (meaning of course ImageMagick can take screenshots, but the translucency does not show in the resulting image?), so I had to use my mobile camera… Damn. Anyways, this is how it looks now:
Illuminous renders active windows at 95% visibility, where as inactive windows are 75% visible
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