Would be good if Obsidian had a toggle-able Mica Effect option at least on Windows 11. It would be better looking than transcluency and I don’t think would be plagued by the purple overlay effect that obsidian uses when translucency is enabled/is obvious in battery saving mode.
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I agree. I don’t know how Obsidian is written, but if it can be ported/upgraded to WinUI 3 it can make use of all the nice Windows 11 UI effects such as Mica for the titlebar and sidebars and Acrylic for context menu’s etc.
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I posted the following to a thread I had opened (my bad; didn’t find this one in a timely fashion) and apparently there have been positive developments in regards to Microsoft facilitating the implementation of Mica Material in more apps. The time to put it on Obsidian seems to be now.
This is what I had posted, word for word:
Use case or problem
On Windows 11 when working with 2 windows, it is often hard and/or visually tiring to discern if Obsidian’s windows is active or in focus or not, as only the maximize and close button mute their colors when windows in innactive.
Proposed Solution
Windows 11 22H2 update added Mica to Desktop Window Manager (DWM) with a new variable DWM_SYSTEMBACKDROP_TYPE, allowing developers to enable Mica in their traditional Win32 apps. Recently yhis allowed developers to enable Mica in Chrome’s 115 title bar, now available in the stable release.
Now that it is possible, Obsidian’s developers should try to implement Mica in Obsidian as well.
As I understand, Obsidian is based on electron, and recently electron already supports the Mica effect natively.
For more details refer to this issue: [Feature Request]: Use new 'Mica' material for BrowserWindow vibrancy in Windows 11 · Issue #29937 · electron/electron · GitHub
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