Transparency slider

[markvvaals]

Under the appearance settings, it would be nice to have a slider to customize the transparency percentage for background blur effects.

For clarity the "Backdrop Type" could be named better. For instance "Background blur" is more descriptive. The % slider could then be "Background transparency".

Furthermore "Mica" and "Mica Alt" provide the same result as far as I can tell from taking screenshots with either setting.

[Jack251970]

Can #3624 help?

[markvvaals]

Can #3624 help?

Not really though right?
I'm talking about themes come with the application by default, where the transparant blur set by "Backdrop Type" does work (on default themes that support it, like default Windows 11 theme).
But I'm missing a transparency slider, Acrylic is very opaque and Mica is very transparent and I'd like to tweak that.

Again, also Mica and Mica Alt are the same, not sure how they should be different, but they shouldn't be the same.

[Jack251970]

I mean you can overwrite transparency by customizing your theme like #3624. And since theme will overwrite the background of main window, it is hard for us to customize the transparency percentage from Flow side.

[markvvaals]

I understand that selecting a different theme, it will override and use the default transparency value set by that theme.
But why would it be difficult to either change or override that value with a slider? Ideally you'd show the default amount based on selected theme, and override the amount in the rendering with the amount set on the slider (rather than looking at the theme file).

I'm technical and a tinkerer, but it feels really unnecessary to have to research how FlowLauncher theme files are formatted, find where they're stored and change a value around to be able to do this...
Even more so since you supply a bunch of themes by default and show that they "support Blur Transparent Background" with an icon and text.

This is just how I feel when interacting with the application.