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@ChiFungHillmanChan ChiFungHillmanChan released this 11 Jul 14:42
v0.7.2
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Scene V0.7.2 brings the Settings window into macOS 26's Liquid Glass design language: transparent chrome, a floating glass sidebar, and a translucent window that blurs whatever is behind it — plus settings-layout polish on every macOS version.

What's new

  • Liquid Glass Settings window (macOS 26 Tahoe). The separate title bar is gone — traffic lights float over the sidebar, the sidebar renders as the system's floating glass panel, and the entire window sits on a translucent material that blurs the desktop and windows behind it. On macOS 14/15 the window keeps its existing opaque look.
  • Consistent chrome across all five tabs. Workspaces, Layouts, Hotkeys, Interaction, and About now share the same top strip and title. Previously only Workspaces and Layouts (the tabs with toolbar buttons) got one — the other three rendered with no strip and a different top inset.
  • Top-aligned tab content everywhere. About and Interaction were vertically centered while the other tabs hugged the top; every tab now starts from the top, on all macOS versions.

Why this matters

A menu bar utility's Settings window is most of its face. On Tahoe, Scene now looks like it belongs to the OS it's running on — while macOS 14/15 users keep exactly the window they had, byte-for-byte behavior aside from the alignment fix.

Under the hood

  • All Tahoe-only behavior sits behind if #available(macOS 26.0, *). SwiftUI's containerBackground(for: .window) does not bridge into a manually hosted NSWindow, so the backdrop is an NSVisualEffectView (.behindWindow, .underWindowBackground) beneath the hosting view, with scroll backgrounds cleared so the material shows through.
  • SceneApp-only change; SceneCore untouched. Tests: 363/363.
  • Universal binary (arm64 + x86_64), macOS 14+, Apple notarized.

Install

Download Scene-0.7.2.dmg below or via brew install --cask chifunghillmanchan/tap/scene. Drag Scene.app to /Applications, then follow docs/INSTALL.md for the one-time Accessibility-permission step.

Upgrade notes

V0.5.6+ users: click Update available in the menu bar and Scene swaps itself for the new bundle and relaunches; Accessibility permission survives the swap. No data migration, no changes to layouts, hotkeys, or workspaces.

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