Home windows 11 is getting blurrier (in a pleasant manner)

For those who’re studying these phrases on a Home windows 11 PC, do me a strong. Decrease all of your home windows and right-click your desktop. You’ll discover that the context menu has a pleasant frosted glass impact, revealing and blurring a little bit of your wallpaper. That is an impact Home windows calls “Acrylic,” and also you would possibly see much more of it sooner or later.

For the reason that launch of Home windows 11, Acrylic blur results can solely be utilized to both a complete window component (just like the Begin menu) or nothing in a window. However a brand new possibility for software program builders will allow them to select to use the Acrylic impact to particular person parts inside functions.

In layman’s phrases: Your Home windows home windows would possibly get some additional frosted glass home windows to peek at no matter’s beneath them.

The brand new possibility was proven off in a WinUI Group Name yesterday, noticed by Home windows Newest. You possibly can see the related data beginning at across the 13-minute mark.

Count on to see the brand new bling present up in official Home windows apps sooner or later—I hardly assume Microsoft would implement these modifications with out displaying them off. As good as that’s as an possibility for builders, I can’t see it swaying many people who find themselves nonetheless Home windows 10 holdouts.