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1.22.0: Windows 7 Aero, the orb over the small bar, the Windows 7 wallpaper

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@JackTulli JackTulli released this 09 Sep 02:13
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New

  • Windows 7 Aero. A sixth look in Display Properties > Appearance: 7's frames, taskbar and Start menu in glass. Without a compositor nothing can be seen through a window, so the glass is the wallpaper, kept blurred, coloured by a law measured off Windows 7 with the same window over black, white and blue desktops. Frames are eight pixels each side and thirty-six over the client, with the reflection down the caption's left and up to its right corner, rounded corners and the caption buttons cut from the captures (the inactive window's grey set included), and plain white titles. The taskbar is the bar's glass with its edge line and Show Desktop sliver, task buttons the measured white-over-glass profile; the Start menu a slab of dark glass with the white pane and the search band cut into it. Aero brings the Windows-7 GTK, Qt and icon themes like Basic does. A window behind another's frame is not seen through it; the wallpaper is what shows there.
  • The Windows 7 wallpaper is carried in wallpapers/ and listed on the Background tab.
  • Windows 7 taskbar, pixel for pixel, from full-size captures of the real thing: the orb in a window of its own that rises above the small bar and sits inside the big one, the task button gradient, the Show Desktop sliver, the tray's offsets from the right edge and its speaker and network glyphs.

Fixed

  • The desktop only built its wallpaper on a reload (a scheme change, the monitors settling); a fresh session without one showed the desktop colour. It is built when the desktop is first created.

    curl -sL jacktulli.github.io/w2k | sh