Window background transparency / opacity control
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Description
### Feature summary
Add support for adjusting the window background opacity or enabling a transparency/blur effect, similar to what other modern desktop apps offer.
### What problem are you trying to solve?
Transparent or translucent windows let users keep visual context of content behind the app — documentation, terminals, reference material — while working. This is a popular customization in developer tooling and would improve the overall desktop experience.
### Proposed solution
A new option under Settings > Themes / Appearance to:
- Adjust window opacity — a slider or numeric input to set how transparent the window background is
- Enable blur-behind — an optional frosted glass / translucent effect using the OS native compositor
### Workflow impact
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### Installation context
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Settings > Themes / Appearance area and the desktop platforms’ native compositor capabilities. Done means users can adjust window opacity and optionally enable a blur-behind effect, with the behavior supported across the relevant desktop environments.
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Assessment
- Domain
- design, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100