Dirty Windows 7 style for CSM 4.3.1
Way back last year I was trying to recreate the noise in Windows 10 programs into a menu skin.
I never figured it out. Gave up, put on back burner.
Theirs is a lot more even looking. Maybe they put the noise on the rgb channel, or glass color mask?
All I got was dirty noise.
The reason I'm releasing it now, instead of putting in the recycling bin, is this skin can have 7
different sizes of user picture inside the menu, copying the frameless type look in the Metro skin.
It might be of use to people with HIDPI displays.
The noise can be turned off so it looks clean.
EDIT: Added noisy taskbar images for older Win 10
Black glass matching only
EDIT: Hey ho
In case anybody is interested, there's a similar test skin at the very end of this post. Called "Metro Noise Test.skin7"
Not as dynamic black as the first skin, just plain grey. Not the final skin for there is no way to perfect the noise effect.
Instead of the noise on the alpha channel, it has the noise on the RGB channels instead, like one of meetHG's.
To me, the noise looks about the same as first, just the noise disappears with white backgrounds.
We can not duplicate the smooth looking Win 10 acrylic. They basically have an image editor for the desktop on all the time.
Besides the saturating color of the background and larger blur radius on the Win 10 1903 menu,
the exclusion layer blocks any white or black background from showing, and the accent tint is disabled.
I saw on the internet a registry fix to turn on fluent design effects for VirtualBox,
hoping that maybe it can also turn on Classic /Open Shell, like how Big muscle turns on glass for Win8.
I Merged the reg file, restarted.
Tried glass setting, disabled glass setting, alpha setting - nope, nothing, diddly squat.
In time, coders over on GitHub will probably figure out how to put as an option setting along with the new code?
Someone requested it on GitHub a while ago.
I see that Startisback and Stardock menus have acrylic blur option settings now.
See ya