Feature: Support "Thin acrylic" backdrop

[ShashankKalwa]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

Requirements

• Add support for "Thin acrylic"

Files Version

3.3

Windows Version

Windows 11 23H2 22635.3350

Comments

No response

[Josh65-2201]

For theming follow the instructions at https://files.community/docs/configuring/custom-themes

[ShashankKalwa]

For theming follow the instructions at https://files.community/docs/configuring/custom-themes

I want Glass theme without the Acrylic backdrop effect like the Files V2 which was having both the Acrylic Theme and Glass Theme different.

[Josh65-2201]

The glass theme is Acrylic backdrop on the full window.

[ShashankKalwa]

The First One Is The Latest Files

Second One Is The Old One "Files V2"

Both have the same background.

Can you spot the difference?
The theme i wanted is the 2nd one from the screenshots

[Josh65-2201]

You didn't follow the instructions on the site. It works for me. Set the backdrop to Acrylic, Follow the instructions under Additional background colors then apply the values listed under Glass

[yaira2]

@ShashankKalwa after enabling acrylic, there is the additional step of adjusting the opacity.

1. Open Files > Settings > Advanced > Edit settings file. This will open the settings file in your default text editor.
2. Before editing the settings file, you’ll need to close Files by right-clicking the icon in the system tray and clicking on “Quit”.
3. The settings file has a JSON format. You can use any text editor to open and modify it.
4. Search for the keys listed below and edit the values accordingly.

"AppThemeBackgroundColor": "#00000000",
"AppThemeAddressBarBackgroundColor": "#00000001",
"AppThemeSidebarBackgroundColor": "#00000001",
"AppThemeFileAreaBackgroundColor": "#00000001",

[Josh65-2201]

You need to put a # in before the numbers

[yaira2]

@ShashankKalwa it looks like it 👍

[ShashankKalwa]

Dhanyavad 🙏

[ShashankKalwa]

Means Thank You in one of the Indian Language called "Hindi"

[yaira2]

Did it work? 👀

[Josh65-2201]

What do you mean? That is the glass theme same as v2. If you mean the layout not being the same then that isn't controlled by theming

[ShashankKalwa]

I don't mean layout.
I mean the background

See this is Files

this is V2

[ShashankKalwa]

The old V2 has clear background than latest files with white-ish blur background

[ShashankKalwa]

?

[Josh65-2201]

Unfortunately that's just how acrylic looks now. There isn't a setting to make it more clear and I don't think there can be.

[yaira2]

Unfortunately that's just how acrylic looks now. There isn't a setting to make it more clear and I don't think there can be.

If you check the WinUI 3 Gallery, it looks like they also have an option for "Thin acrylic" which I think has the original behavior. @heftymouse fyi

[heftymouse]

The current acrylic backdrop is based on thin acrylic. To achieve a similar effect to base acrylic, you can increase the opacity of the default black background. There is a case to be made for adding base acrylic as a built-in option though

[yaira2]

I see, so I had it backwards. Let's try base acrylic then 👍

Should we have both or should we switch to base?

[mdtauk]

Think about how you would give the theme the option to use a thin acrylic, and add opacity to the base background colour to make it more like the flyout acrylic.

To those who don't know the difference between Thin Acrylic and Normal Acrylic. The Widget flyout background is Thin Acrylic - and the Notification Centre is Shell Acrylic

[ShashankKalwa]

Is it still safe to make old Files V2 as default file explorer?

[ShashankKalwa]

Is it still safe to make old Files V2 as default file explorer?

???

[0x5bfa]

Yeah reg file has never been changed for a long time.
You can set but you must uninstall v3 first if you've installed before.

[yaira2]

Is it still safe to make old Files V2 as default file explorer?

This is a bit off topic for this issue, but I'd advise against using v2 in general as we have many bug fixes and optimizations in v3. Regarding this feature request, it's been approved for development and it's on our todo list.

[ShashankKalwa]

Is it still safe to make old Files V2 as default file explorer?

This is a bit off topic for this issue, but I'd advise against using v2 in general as we have many bug fixes and optimizations in v3. Regarding this feature request, it's been approved for development and it's on our todo list.

Ok
Thanks For considering my feature request.