wangwenx190 / qtacrylicmaterial

Cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's Acrylic material.

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QtAcrylicMaterial

This is a cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's Acrylic material, based on pure Qt Quick technology and supports Qt RHI as well.

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Windows

Linux

macOS

Supported platforms

  • Windows: D3D11, Vulkan, OpenGL
  • Linux: Vulkan, OpenGL
  • macOS: Metal, Vulkan, OpenGL

Note: Please refer to Qt's own supported platforms to get the specific supported OS version.

Requirements

  • Qt version: at least Qt 6, the newer, the better. Tested on Qt 6.3.0.
  • Qt modules: QtCore, QtGui, QtShaderTools, QtQuick.
  • Compiler: supports C++17 at least, the newer, the better. Tested on MSVC 2022 (Windows), GCC 11 (Linux) and Clang 13 (macOS).
  • Build system: the latest version of CMake and ninja. QMake is not tested.

Limitations

  • This library uses the desktop wallpaper as the blur source instead of the visual content behind the window because to achieve the latter much platform-specific black magic will be needed and it also doesn't play well with Qt Quick and Qt RHI.
  • The blurred wallpaper has a little latency to catch up with the host window's latest position.
  • The host window's resizing performance will be affected much, especially on some old hardware.
  • The gaussian blur's appearance is not exactly the same with Microsoft's one, not sure why.
  • The CPU & memory usage and power consumption of your application will increase for quite some bit.
  • The host window's overall performance will have some impact in some degree.
  • This library can update the desktop wallpaper automatically, but only on Windows, because I don't know how to detect the corresponding event on Linux and macOS.

Acrylic material's definition

MSAcrylicMaterial

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Cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's Acrylic material.

License:MIT License


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