Another noteworthy improvement in Chrome 115 is the integration of Mica design elements into the Win11 desktop.

The Win11 22H2 update adds Mica support to the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) via the new “DWM_SYSTEMBACKDROP_TYPE” variable, allowing users to incorporate Mica elements into traditional Win32 applications.

Note: Mica is an opaque, dynamic material that contains themes and desktop wallpapers for drawing backgrounds for long-term windows such as applications and settings.

Mica is specifically designed for the performance optimization of applications, and it samples the desktop wallpaper only once to create its visualization.

Mica Alt is a variant of Mica with enhanced color shading of the user’s desktop background color. Mica Alt can be applied to an application’s background to provide a deeper visual hierarchy than Mica, especially when creating applications with tabbed title bars.

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Effect of enabling Mica Alt (lighter)

Enable the effect of Mica Alt (darker)

The list as follows:

This CL demonstrates "minimal code tweaking" to enable Mica.

The Alt title bar material in Chromium will use the DWMWA_SYSTEMBACKDROP_TYPE DWM property in Windows 11 22H2.

Users can enable this with the --disable-windows10-custom-titlebar CLI command.

This CL is for demonstration purposes only and is required to run on Win11 22H2 and higher, using the dark color mode and the default Chromium color scheme.

Mica is an opaque, dynamic material that contains themes and desktop wallpapers for drawing the background of long-term windows such as applications and settings.

Mica is specifically designed to optimize the performance of applications by sampling the desktop wallpaper only once to create its visualization.

Mica Alt is a variant of Mica with stronger coloring of the user’s desktop background color. Mica Alt can be applied to the background of an application to provide a deeper visual hierarchy than Mica, especially when creating applications with tabbed title bars.

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Mica has become one of the most compelling features of Windows 11, described in the colloquial sense as a translucent/hairy glass effect. Outside of the system, Microsoft wants to deploy it into its own products so as to provide a more unified visual experience. About the description of Mica, Microsoft officially said

"Mica is an opaque, dynamic material that combines a theme and desktop wallpaper to draw the background of long-lasting windows such as applications and settings. You can apply Mica to your application backgrounds to delight users and create visual hierarchies that increase productivity by improving clarity on the window where the focus is. Mica is designed for application performance as it samples the desktop wallpaper only once to create its visualization."

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