Feature request: use Liquid Glass for the volume HUD

[bkosse]

[alberti42]

Yes, I understand. The problem is that nobody on the internet knows exactly how to reproduce it.

I had an exchange before with the developer of https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/. I am not sure whether he succeeded in getting much closer to the real macOS look. You can check the freeware app of his.

He probably would be willing to help because my app is not competing and not monetized in any way, but likely he would not like his secret sauce to be shared freely over the internet. He told me that he spent a lot of time fine tuning the settings. In my view it is still not the same as macOS, but very likely better than Volume Control.

I myself spent many hours tweaking the look but then I gave up in the frustration of not finding the right combination. I had even programmed a loop of all possible combinations with me staring at the screen for when the right combination happens. For what I remember, there tons of free parameters that are not documented. I don't know why Apple does it this way to prevent his own developers from using its own Liquid Glass style.

I would love it if someone skilled with macOS were willing to help. It is enough to point out some other free projects on GitHub implementing a similar look.

[bkosse]

Wow! Thank you for all the work and effort you put into this app!

I did not realize this was so difficult and I just assumed Apple provided tools for this...

[alberti42]

Thanks. Now maybe the mismatch in the look is a bit more bearable after knowing the background.

And I sincerely hope someone someday will show me or publish a blog on the internet on how to make the look more consistent, but probably by then, Apple will have already moved to a different style ;-)